Bill Text: GA HB520 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy purchase; amount of energy provider is required to purchase from generator; change

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-26 - Senate Read Second Time [HB520 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB520-Introduced.html

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11 LC 36 1886

House Bill 520

By: Representative Parsons of the 42nd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 46-3-56 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements to purchase energy from a customer generator and safety standards and regulations, so as to change the amount of energy an electric service provider is required to purchase from an eligible customer generator; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 46-3-56 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements to purchase energy from a customer generator and safety standards and regulations, is amended by revising subsection (a) as follows:

"(a) An electric service provider will shall only be required to purchase energy as specified in Code Section 46-3-55 from an eligible customer generator on a first-come, first-served basis until the cumulative generating capacity of all renewable energy sources equals 0.2 2.5 percent of the utility's annual peak demand in the previous year; provided, however, that no electric service provider will shall be required to purchase such energy at a price above avoided energy cost unless that amount of energy has been subscribed under any renewable energy program."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.