Revision: March 8, 2016, midnight
\t \t\tSB 378 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
02/04/2016 0114s
2016 SESSION
\t16-2886
\t06/01
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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ANALYSIS
\tThis bill requires the public utilities commission to review net metering agreements between group hosts and group members.
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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\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02/04/2016 0114s\t16-2886
\t06/01
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:
\t1 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.
\t2 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9, I to read as follows:
\t\tI. Standard tariffs providing for net energy metering shall be made available to eligible customer-generators by each electric distribution utility in conformance with net metering rules adopted and orders issued by the commission. Each net energy metering tariff shall be identical, with respect to rates, rate structure, and charges, to the tariff under which a customer-generator would otherwise take default generation supply service from the distribution utility. Such tariffs shall be available on a first-come, first-served basis within each electric utility service area under the jurisdiction of the commission until such time as the total rated generating capacity owned or operated by eligible customer-generators totals a number equal to 50 megawatts multiplied by each such utility's percentage share of the total 2010 annual coincident peak energy demand distributed by all such utilities as determined by the commission. No more than 4 megawatts of such total rated generating capacity shall be from a combined heat and power system as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, I-d. 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 more than 20 percent of the total net metering utility-specific allocation pursuant to this paragraph, and the creation of multiple business organizations by the same shall not defeat this requirement.
\t3 Effective date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.