CHAPTER 33
SB 378 - FINAL VERSION
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4Apr2016... 1199h
04/21/2016 1647EBA
2016 SESSION
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SENATE BILL\t378
AN ACT\trelative to the availability of net metering tariffs.
SPONSORS:\tSen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Little, Dist 8
COMMITTEE:\tEnergy And Natural Resources
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
\tThis bill:
\tI. Requires the public utilities commission to review net metering agreements between group hosts and group members.
\tII. Requires an electric utility to make certain information on net metering allocation and capacity available on its website on a bi-weekly basis.
\tIII. Requires all persons involved in a net metering interconnection queue application to sign a certificate of compliance.
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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.
\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT\trelative to the availability of net metering tariffs.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
\t33:1 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9, XIV(a) to read as follows:
\t\tXIV.(a) A customer-generator may elect to become a group host for the purpose of reducing or otherwise controlling the energy costs of a group of customers who are not customer-generators. The group of customers shall be default service customers of the same electric distribution utility as the host. The host shall provide a list of the group members to the commission and the electric distribution utility and shall certify that all members of the group have executed an agreement with the host regarding the utilization of kilowatt hours produced by the eligible facility and that the total historic annual load of the group members together with the host exceeds the projected annual output of the host's facility. The commission shall verify that these group requirements have been met, shall review the executed agreements for compliance with this section, and shall register the group host. The commission shall establish the process for registering hosts, including periodic re-registration, and the process by which changes in membership are allowed and administered. Net metering tariffs under this section shall not be made available to a customer-generator group host until such host is registered by the commission.
\t33:2 New Paragraph; Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:
\t\tI-a. No person, owner, developer, installer of an eligible customer-generator facility, business organization, or any subsidiary thereof, shall reserve capacity space in the net metering interconnection queue of more than 20 percent of the total net metering utility-specific allocation pursuant to this section, and the creation of multiple business organizations, including a person, as defined in RSA 366:1, I, by the same shall not defeat this requirement. On a weekly basis each utility shall make public on its website its total net metering allocation, its reserved net metering capacity, and its installed and operating net metering capacity. For project applications of greater than 100 kilowatts, each utility net metering interconnection queue application shall include a certification of compliance with the 20 percent requirement, all persons involved in such an application shall sign the certification of compliance, and no application shall be processed where one or more persons involved in the application did not sign the certification of compliance.
\t33:3 Repeal. RSA 362-A:9, I-a, relative to net energy metering, is repealed.
\t33:4 Applicability. Section 3 of this act shall take effect upon a final decision of the public utilities commission which is not subject to appeal that sets a tariff and eliminates any cap on net metering, as certified to the director of legislative services and the secretary of state.
\t\tI. Section 3 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 4 of this act.
\t\tII. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: May 2, 2016
Effective Date: I. Section 3 shall take effect as provided in section 4.
II. Remainder shall take effect May 2, 2016