SB 492 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2766
10/06
SENATE BILL 492
AN ACT relative to the electric renewable portfolio standard.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 9; Rep. Wells, Merr. 1; Rep. Somssich, Rock. 27; Rep. Backus, Hills. 19; Rep. McGhee, Hills. 40
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill increases the percentage of electricity supplied from class II solar technology under the minimum electric renewable portfolio standards through 2025.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2766
10/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to the electric renewable portfolio standard.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Minimum Electric Portfolio Standards; Class II. Amend the footnote concluding 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, 0.8 percent in 2016, and increased annually by 0.2 percent per year from 2017 through 2023, after which it shall remain unchanged. Class II shall increase to 0.5 percent beginning in 2018, 0.6 percent beginning in 2019, [and 0.7 ] 1.0 percent beginning in 2020, [otherwise] 2.5 percent beginning in 2021, 4.0 percent beginning in 2022, 5.5 percent beginning in 2023, 7.0 percent beginning in 2024, and 10 percent beginning in 2025. Classes [II-IV] III and IV shall remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, [V-VI] VI. The requirements for classes I and II are subject to the provisions of RSA 362-F:4, V.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Date | Body | Type |
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March 17, 2020 | Senate | Hearing |
June 16, 2020: No Pending Motion; 06/16/2020 SJ 8
June 16, 2020: Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, MA, VV; 06/16/2020 SJ 8
March 17, 2020: ==CANCELLED== Hearing: 03/17/2020, Room 103, LOB, 10:00 am; SC 11
Jan. 8, 2020: To Be Introduced 01/08/2020 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 1