Bill Text: NH HB1599 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to customer generators who sell renewable energy certificates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-07-07 - Signed by Governor Sununu 07/01/2022; Chapter 308; eff. 08/30/2022 House Journal 14 [HB1599 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1599-Amended.html
HB 1599-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
04/28/2022 1841s
2022 SESSION
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12/05
HOUSE BILL 1599-FN
AN ACT relative to customer generators who sell renewable energy certificates.
SPONSORS: Rep. Vose, Rock. 9; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill requires the public utilities commission to consider whether changes should be made to net metering tariffs.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
04/28/2022 1841s 22-2763
12/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to customer generators who sell renewable energy certificates.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Net Energy Metering. Amend RSA 362-A:9 by inserting after paragraph XXI the following new paragraph:
XXII. When the department of energy’s distributed energy resource valuation study is completed and thereafter the public utilities commission opens a new proceeding that includes consideration of the adoption of net metering tariffs that apply to newly-constructed customer-generators with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt, the commission shall consider whether and when further changes should be made to the net metering tariff structure approved in order no. 26,029 issued on June 23, 2017, applicable to such newly-constructed customer-generators. Such consideration of net metering tariffs that apply to newly-constructed customer-generators with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt shall include but not be limited to whether or not the cost of compliance with the electric renewable portfolio standard, RSA 362-F, inclusive of prior period reconciliations, should be excluded from the monetary credit for exports to the grid, as well as whether or not the monetary credit should include compensation for services and value currently not compensated such as avoided transmission, distribution, and capacity costs and other grid services.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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Redraft 12/15/21
HB 1599-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to customer generators who sell renewable energy certificates.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ ] State [ X ] County [ X ] Local [ ] None
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COUNTY: | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 |
Revenue | $0 | Indeterminable Decrease | Indeterminable Decrease | Indeterminable Decrease |
Expenditures | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Funding Source: | [ ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ ] Other | |||
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Revenue | $0 | Indeterminable Decrease | Indeterminable Decrease | Indeterminable Decrease |
Expenditures | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
METHODOLOGY:
This bill establishes deductions from the monetary credit for certain exports to the electric grid
until the public utilities commission adopts alternative tariffs.
The Department of Energy indicates this bill would modify the net metering tariff provisions that apply to customer-generators with renewable energy projects between 1MW and 5MW in size by removing the cost of utility compliance with the state’s renewable portfolio standard from the monetary credits based on the projects’ net exports to the electric grid. Currently, only municipal hosts and political subdivisions that participate in group net metering with such hosts are eligible to net meter above 1MW, therefore this change would only impact those hosts and group members. If a political subdivision is not a member of such a municipal host’s group net metering arrangement, then there would be no impact to its revenues or expenditures. If a political subdivision does participate in such a municipal host group net metering arrangement, there would be no impact on its expenditures, but an indeterminable decrease in its revenue. Per the 2021 Renewable Energy Fund Annual Report, the cost of compliance with the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) for compliance year 2020 was $0.0053 per kWh. That figure has varied from $0.0011 per kWh to $0.0061 per kW since the establishment of the RPS. The amount of revenue that would be lost by any participating political subdivisions is impossible to calculate because the Department does not know how much electricity would be generated at net-metered facilities above 1MW owned by the municipal hosts with political subdivisions as group members, how much of that electricity would be exported to the grid on a net basis, or what will be the future cost of utility compliance with the RPS. There would be no impact to state revenues or expenditures.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Energy
