Revision: April 25, 2023, 11:16 a.m.
Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35
April 17, 2023
2023-1392h
10/05
Amendment to SB 166-FN
Amend the bill by replacing section 7 with the following:
7 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Pilot Programs; Grid Modernization. Amend RSA 362-A:2-b, VII to read as follows:
VII. Each electric distribution utility may propose and participate in [a pilot] one to 5 pilots, in conjunction with a competitive electric power supplier or municipal or county aggregation, pursuant to RSA 53-E, operating as or in conjunction with a load-serving entity. The commission [may] shall approve provisions to cover incremental costs of the utility related to any such approved pilot. The public utilities commission may approve utility participation in a pilot for transactive energy and distributed energy resources, and the associated advanced metering infrastructure, as components of grid modernization if the jurisdictional conflicts under paragraph III are successfully resolved.
Amend the bill by inserting after section 7 the following and renumbering the original sections 8-11 to read as 9-12, respectively:
8 Authorization of Pilots; Credits. Amend RSA 362-A:2-b, XI(a) to read as follows:
XI.(a) The sponsors of a pilot, including the participating electric distribution utility, may petition the commission to determine, through an adjudicated proceeding, how credits for actual avoided transmission charges are to be made for exports to the distribution grid by limited producers during hours of coincident peak on which transmission costs are allocated to [reduce the retail load measured at the point of interconnection between] the distribution system [under state jurisdiction and transmission facilities under federal jurisdiction. Said costs shall be allocated to the distribution utility as transmission network customer are reduced from what they otherwise would be absent the electricity exported to the distribution grid by the limited producer. Such credit shall be made pursuant to either subparagraph (b) or (c) as proposed and determined by the commission to be for the public good]. Such credit shall be based upon the extent to which such exports to the distribution grid reduce retail loads calculated at the point of interconnection between the distribution system, under state jurisdiction, and transmission facilities, under federal jurisdiction, and the extent to which the actual transmission costs allocated to the distribution utility network customer are reduced from what they would be absent the electricity exported to the distribution grid by the limited producer.