Bill Text: NH HB605 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Reconsider HB605 (Rep. Sweeney): Motion Failed Voice Vote 03/16/2023 House Journal 9 P. 67 [HB605 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2023-HB605-Introduced.html
HB 605-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
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HOUSE BILL 605-FN
AN ACT relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards.
SPONSORS: Rep. Raynolds, Rock. 39
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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ANALYSIS
This bill revises the minimum percentages for solar electrical generation included in the renewable portfolio standards for 2024 through 2050 and after.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. Amend RSA 362-F:3 to read as follows:
362-F:3 Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. For each year specified in the table below, each provider of electricity shall obtain and retire certificates sufficient in number and class type to meet or exceed the following percentages of total megawatt-hours of electricity supplied by the provider to its end-use customers that year, except to the extent that the provider makes payments to the renewable energy fund under RSA 362-F:10, II:
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2025 and thereafter
Class I 0.0% 0.5% 1% 2% 3% 3.8% 5% 6% 15% (*)
Class II 0.0% 0.0% 0.04% 0.08% 0.15% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% [0.7%] 3% min (**)
Class III 3.5% 4.5% 5.5% 6.5% 1.4% 1.5% 3.0% 8.0% 8.0%
Class IV 0.5% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1.3% 1.4% 1.5% 1.5%
*Class I increases an additional 0.9 percent per year from 2015 through 2025. A set percentage of the class I totals shall be satisfied annually by the acquisition of renewable energy certificates from qualifying renewable energy technologies producing useful thermal energy as defined in RSA 362-F:2, XV-a. The set percentage shall be 0.4 percent in 2014, 0.6 percent in 2015, 0.8 percent in 2016, and increased annually by 0.2 percent per year from 2017 through 2023, after which it shall remain unchanged. [Class II shall increase to 0.5 percent beginning in 2018, 0.6 percent beginning in 2019, and 0.7 percent beginning in 2020, otherwise]. Classes [II-IV] III and IV shall remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, V-VI.
** Class II percentages shall be as follows:
Year Minimum %
2024 2.5
2025 3.0
2026 3.5
2027 4.0
2028 5.0
2029 6.0
2030 and after 7.5
2035 and after 10
2040 and after 15
2045 and after 20
2050 and after 25
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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HB 605-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Due to time constraints, the Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to provide a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, at this time. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Energy
