Bill Text: NH HB1296 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Relative to net energy metering.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-05-21 - House Signed By Governor 05/14/2012; Effective 07/13/2012; Chapter 0059 [HB1296 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1296-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 59

HB 1296 – FINAL VERSION

2012 SESSION

12-2533

09/10

HOUSE BILL 1296

AN ACT relative to net energy metering.

SPONSORS: Rep. Introne, Rock 3; Rep. Cali-Pitts, Rock 16; Rep. Cataldo, Straf 3

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

ANALYSIS

This bill increases from 2 to 4 the amount of megawatts of total rated generating capacity which may be from a combined heat and power system for purposes of 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2533

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to net energy metering.

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

59:1 Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9, I to read as follows:

I. Standard tariffs providing for net energy metering shall be made available to eligible customer-generators by each electric distribution utility in conformance with net metering rules adopted and orders issued by the commission. Each net energy metering tariff shall be identical, with respect to rates, rate structure, and charges, to the tariff under which a customer-generator would otherwise take default generation supply service from the distribution utility. Such tariffs 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 or operated by eligible customer-generators totals a number equal to 50 megawatts multiplied by each such utility’s percentage share of the total 2010 annual coincident peak energy demand distributed by all such utilities as determined by the commission. No more than [2] 4 megawatts of such total rated generating capacity shall be from a combined heat and power system as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, I-d.

59:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 14, 2012

Effective Date: July 13, 2012