HB 114 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0681
06/05
HOUSE BILL 114
AN ACT relative to minimum electric renewable portfolio standards.
SPONSORS: Rep. Barry, Hills. 21; Rep. Vose, Rock. 9; Rep. Vadney, Belk. 2
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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This bill reduces the percentage of total megawatt-hours of electricity from class I sources to be supplied by each producer to its customers in 2025 and thereafter under the minimum electric renewable portfolio standards.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0681
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to minimum electric renewable portfolio standards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. Amend RSA 362-F:3 to read as follows:
362-F:3 Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. For each year specified in the table below, each provider of electricity shall obtain and retire certificates sufficient in number and class type to meet or exceed the following percentages of total megawatt-hours of electricity supplied by the provider to its end-use customers that year, except to the extent that the provider makes payments to the renewable energy fund under RSA 362-F:10, II:
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2025 and thereafter
Class I 0.0% 0.5% 1% 2% 3% 3.8% 5% 6% [15%] 6% (*)
Class II 0.0% 0.0% 0.04% 0.08% 0.15% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3%
Class III 3.5% 4.5% 5.5% 6.5% 1.4% 1.5% 3.0% 8.0% 8.0%
Class IV 0.5% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1.3% 1.4% 1.5% 1.5%
2 Minimun Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. Amend the footnote to RSA 362-F:3 to read as follows:
*[Class I increases an additional 0.9 percent per year from 2015 through 2025.] A set percentage of the class I totals shall be satisfied annually by the acquisition of renewable energy certificates from qualifying renewable energy technologies producing useful thermal energy as defined in RSA 362-F:2, XV-a. The set percentage shall be 0.4 percent in 2014, 0.6 percent in 2015, 1.3 percent in 2016, and increased annually by 0.1 percent per year from 2017 through 2023, after which it shall remain unchanged. Classes II-IV remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, V-VI.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
| Date | Body | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 18, 2017 | House | Hearing |
| Feb. 14, 2017 | House | Exec Session |
| Oct. 25, 2017 | House | Exec Session |
| Jan. 3, 2018 | House | Floor Vote |
| Jan. 9, 2018 | House | Floor Vote |
| House | Floor Vote | |
| Feb. 15, 2018 | House | Floor Vote |
| April 17, 2018 | Senate | Hearing |
| May 2, 2018 | Senate | Floor Vote |
| May 3, 2018 | Senate | Floor Vote |
May 3, 2018: Refer to Interim Study, MA, VV; 05/03/2018; SJ 16
May 3, 2018: Special Order to the end of the day, Without Objection, MA; 05/03/2018; SJ 16
May 3, 2018: Committee Report: Referred to Interim Study, 05/03/2018;
May 3, 2018: Special Order to 05/03/2018, Without Objection, MA; 05/02/2018 SJ 15
May 2, 2018: Committee Report: Referred to Interim Study, 05/02/2018; SC 19
April 17, 2018: Hearing: 04/17/2018, Room 103, SH, 09:15 am; SC 17
Feb. 15, 2018: Introduced 02/15/2018 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 5
Feb. 15, 2018: Reconsider HB 114 (Rep. Hopper): MF DV 164-168 02/15/2018 HJ 4 P. 20
Feb. 15, 2018: Ought to Pass: MA RC 167-164 02/15/2018 HJ 4 P. 17
: Special Order to 2/15/2018 Without Objection HJ 3 P. 81
: Special Order to next session day Without Objection HJ 2 P. 47
: Special Order to 1/9/2018 Without Objection HJ 1 P. 104
: Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
Jan. 3, 2018: Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass for 01/03/2018 (Vote 11-10; RC)
Oct. 25, 2017: ==RESCHEDULED== Executive Session: 10/25/2017 02:00 PM LOB 304
Oct. 25, 2017: Retained Bill Full Committee Work Session: 10/25/2017 01:00 PM LOB 304
Oct. 25, 2017: ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 10/25/2017 01:00 PM LOB 304
Oct. 10, 2017: Retained Bill Subcommittee Work Session: 10/10/2017 01:00 PM LOB 304
Sept. 28, 2017: Retained Bill Subcommittee Work Session: 09/28/2017 02:00 PM LOB 304
Sept. 6, 2017: Retained Bill Full Committee Work Session: 09/06/2017 10:00 AM LOB 304
: Retained in Committee
Feb. 14, 2017: Executive Session: 02/14/2017 01:30 PM LOB 304
Feb. 14, 2017: Full Committee Work Session: 02/14/2017 10:15 AM LOB 304
Jan. 18, 2017: Public Hearing: 01/18/2017 01:00 PM LOB 304
Jan. 4, 2017: Introduced 01/04/2017 and referred to Science, Technology and Energy HJ 2 P. 17