Revision: March 24, 2025, 2:53 p.m.
Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35
Rep. Cormen, Graf. 15
March 24, 2025
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06/09
Floor Amendment to HB 692
Amend the title of the bill by replacing it with the following:
AN ACT relative to advanced metering functionality and compliance with FERC Order 2222.
Amend the bill by replacing section 1, paragraphs II and III, with the following:
II. New Hampshire utilities are in the process of upgrading the electricity infrastructure to enable electric storage, intermittent generation, distributed generation, demand response, energy efficiency, thermal storage, or electric vehicles and their charging equipment.
III. These upgrades are required by the Independent System Operators of New England (ISO-NE) in their role as regional coordinator on behalf of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order 2222. FERC Order 2222, filed in September 2020, requires utility compliance by November 2026 to remove barriers to competition by distributed energy resources and enable fair competition. Compliance requires distribution utilities to remove barriers for small resource aggregators to participate in wholesale markets, providing greater stability to the regional grid.
Amend the bill by replacing all after section 1 with the following:
2 New Section; Access to Interval and Advanced Metering Functionality. Amend RSA 362-A by inserting after section 9 the following new section:
362-A:10 Access to Interval and Advanced Metering Functionality. For electric distribution utilities under commission jurisdiction that have not implemented interval and advanced metering functionality capable of reporting hourly consumption or exports to the grid for all or most of their distribution customers for load settlement, a report on their compliance with FERC Order 2222, including identified milestones for interval metering technology, backend systems to read and bill such meters, and planned infrastructure investments to achieve compliance by November 2026, shall be submitted to the New Hampshire department of energy and the house and senate energy committees by November 1, 2025.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill requires electric distribution utilities to submit a compliance report on FERC Order 2222 milestones by November 1, 2025, to the New Hampshire department of energy, the house science, technology and energy committee, and the senate energy and natural resources committee.