CHAPTER 148
HB 1412 - FINAL VERSION
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2000 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 1412
AN ACT relative to electric customer-generators.
SPONSORS: Rep. Gilmore, Straf 11; Rep. Lynde, Hills 24; Rep. Guay, Coos 6; Rep. D. White, Hills 25
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill clarifies the time frame within which electric distribution utilities shall make available to eligible customer-generators a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering. The bill also establishes equipment requirements for transmission of energy by a customer-generator to the electric grid.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to electric customer-generators.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
148:1 Public Utilities; Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9, I to read as follows:
I. A standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering shall be developed and made available to eligible customer-generators by each electric distribution utility within [6 months] 90 days of the start of retail choice of electric suppliers, or within 90 days of the final approval of net metering regulations issued by the commission, whichever comes first. Such tariffs or contracts shall be available on a first-come, first-served basis within each electric utility service area under the jurisdiction of the commission until such time as the total rated generating capacity owned and operated by eligible customer-generators totals 0.05 percent of the annual peak energy demand distributed by each such utility as determined by the commission from time to time.
148:2 New Paragraph; Public Utilities; Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Net Energy Metering; Equipment Requirements. Amend RSA 362-A:9 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VII Once the commission has established standards for equipment used by eligible customer-generators, electric distribution utilities shall not require any additional standards or testing for transmission equipment as a condition of net energy metering.
148:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
(Approved: May 23, 2000)
(Effective Date: July 22, 2000)