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2024 SESSION
24-2150.0
10/05
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to assessment of demand-side management programs in utility rates.
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires public utilities to include an assessment of demand-side management programs in the rates subject to approval by the public utilities commission.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2150.0
10/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to assessment of demand-side management programs in utility rates.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Public Utility Commission; Utility Rates; Assessment of Demand-side Management Programs. Amend RSA 378 by inserting after section 30-e the following new section:
378:30-f Assessment of Demand-side Management Programs.
I. The commission shall require all utilities to include an assessment of demand-side management programs, including conservation, efficiency, and load management initiatives, when requesting a change in rates pursuant to this chapter. This requirement shall not apply to temporary rates authorized by RSA 378:27, default service within the meaning of RSA 374-F:1-a, cost-of-gas proceedings, and system benefits charges or local distribution adjustment charges as set forth in RSA 374-F:3, VI-a.
II. In determining just and reasonable rates pursuant to this chapter, the commission shall consider the extent to which an assessment filed pursuant to this section demonstrates that supply side measures are less costly to customers than the demand-side opportunities described in the assessment. To the extent the commission determines that demand-side opportunities are less costly, it shall require the utility to implement those measures.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.