SB69 (2023) Detail

Relative to allowing certain nonprofits to participate as a customer-generator group hosts under net energy metering.


SB 69-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

02/09/2023   0406s

2023 SESSION

23-0788

10/04

 

SENATE BILL 69-FN

 

AN ACT relative to allowing certain nonprofits to participate as a customer-generator group hosts under net energy metering.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17

 

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows nonprofit entities of the community and technical colleges, colleges and universities, not-for-profit hospitals, housing authorities, bona fide religious organizations, and the Pease development authority, to participate as customer-generator group hosts under net energy metering.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/09/2023   0406s 23-0788

10/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to allowing certain nonprofits to participate as a customer-generator group hosts under net energy metering.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Definitions.  Amend RSA 362-A:1-a, II-b to read as follows:

II-b. "Eligible customer-generator" or "customer-generator" means an electric utility customer who owns, operates, or purchases power from an electrical generating facility either powered by renewable energy or which employs a heat led combined heat and power system, with a total peak generating capacity of up to and including one megawatt, except as provided for a municipal host as defined in paragraph II-c and except as provided for a nonprofit host as defined in paragraph II-g, that is located behind a retail meter on the customer's premises, is interconnected and operates in parallel with the electric grid, and is used to offset the customer's own electricity requirements. Incremental generation added to an existing generation facility, that does not itself qualify for net metering, shall qualify if such incremental generation meets the qualifications of this paragraph and is metered separately from the nonqualifying facility.

2 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Definitions. New Paragraph; Definition; Non-profit Host. Amend RSA 362-A:1-a by inserting after paragraph II-f the following new paragraph:

II-g. "Nonprofit host" means a customer generator with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt and less than 5 megawatts used to offset the electricity requirements of a group consisting exclusively of one or more customers, who are nonprofit, provided that all customers are located within the same utility franchise service territory. A nonprofit host may be owned by either a public or private entity. For this definition, "nonprofit" means any community and technical college, colleges and universities, hospitals as defined in RSA 151:2, I(a) that operate as a not for profit or a non-profit, housing authorities, bona fide religious organizations, and the Pease development authority.

3  Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Net Energy Metering.  Amend 362-A:9, XIV(a) to read as follows:

XIV.(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, except that a political subdivision[,] as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, II-c, a nonprofit as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, II-g, or the owner of a facility described in RSA 362-A:9, XX, that is a customer-generator, may participate as a group member.  The group of customers shall be located within the service territory 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 department shall verify that these group requirements have been met and shall register the group host.  The department 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 department.

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

 

LBA

23-0788

Amended 2/13/23

 

SB 69-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2023-0406s)

 

AN ACT relative to allowing certain nonprofits to participate as a customer-generator group hosts under net energy metering.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [ X ] County               [ X ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

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  [ X ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Other - Various Government Funds

 

 

 

 

 

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METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Energy indicates this bill would make additional entities eligible to participate as customer generators up to 5 megawatts.  Based on information available to the Department, at least 65 entities that are not currently eligible would become eligible.  The Department cannot estimate how many of the newly eligible entities would exercise this option and as such, and it cannot estimate the total load of these entities.  To the extent cost shifting occurs as a result of customer generators receiving credit for excess generation, the bill would increase the amount of cost shifting, leading to increased electricity costs for the state, counties, and units of local government that do not participate in net metering.  In Docket 22-060, the Public Utilities Commission is reviewing the tariff paid to customer generators and will be examining the extent of any cost shifting.  Therefore, the impact on expenditures at the state, county, and local level is indeterminable.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Energy

 

Amendments

Date Amendment
Feb. 7, 2023 2023-0406s

Links


Date Body Type
Jan. 24, 2023 Senate Hearing
Feb. 9, 2023 Senate Floor Vote
Feb. 23, 2023 Senate Floor Vote
April 3, 2023 House Hearing
April 18, 2023 House Exec Session
April 18, 2023 House Floor Vote

Bill Text Revisions

SB69 Revision: 37880 Date: Feb. 13, 2023, 4:33 p.m.
SB69 Revision: 37834 Date: Feb. 7, 2023, 4:25 p.m.
SB69 Revision: 37601 Date: Jan. 18, 2023, 5:17 p.m.
SB69 Revision: 43597 Date: Jan. 3, 2023, 8:38 a.m.

Docket


Oct. 27, 2023: Died on Table, Session ended 10/26/2023 HJ 18


May 4, 2023: Lay SB69 on Table (Rep. Weber): MA DV 190-181 05/04/2023 HJ 13 P. 41


May 4, 2023: Ought to Pass: MF RC 186-186 05/04/2023 HJ 13 P. 39


April 25, 2023: Committee Report: Without Recommendation 04/18/2023 (Vote ; RC)


April 11, 2023: Executive Session: 04/18/2023 09:00 am LOB 302-304


April 11, 2023: Full Committee Work Session: 04/17/2023 01:00 pm LOB 302-304


March 28, 2023: Public Hearing: 04/03/2023 10:30 am LOB 302-304


March 20, 2023: Introduced (in recess of) 03/16/2023 and referred to Science, Technology and Energy


Feb. 22, 2023: Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 02/22/2023; SJ 8


Feb. 15, 2023: Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/22/2023; SC 11


Feb. 9, 2023: Ought to Pass with Amendment 2023-0406s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 02/09/2023; SJ 6


Feb. 9, 2023: Committee Amendment # 2023-0406s, AA, VV; 02/09/2023; SJ 6


Feb. 7, 2023: Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2023-0406s, 02/09/2023; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 9A


Jan. 19, 2023: Hearing: 01/24/2023, Room 103, SH, 09:15 am; SC 7


Jan. 18, 2023: Introduced 01/05/2023 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 4