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% (*)

Class II 0.0% 0.0% 0.04% 0.08% 0.15% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.7% ).III and IV

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

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% (0.7%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. . Classes III and IV shall remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, V-VI.

Class II percentages shall be as follows: **

** Year Minimum % **

** 2024 2.5 **

** 2025 3.0 **

** 2026 3.5 **

** 2027 4.0 **

** 2028 5.0 **

** 2029 6.0 **

** 2030 and after 7.5 **

** 2035 and after 10 **

** 2040 and after 15 **

** 2045 and after 20 **

** 2050 and after 25**

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.