Bill Text: NH HB1629 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to default service for net metering.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-28 - Inexpedient to Legislate, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote === BILL KILLED ===; 04/28/2022; Senate Journal 10 [HB1629 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1629-Introduced.html
HB 1629-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2022 SESSION
22-2526
12/08
HOUSE BILL 1629-FN
AN ACT relative to default service for net metering.
SPONSORS: Rep. Berezhny, Graf. 9; Rep. Lang, Belk. 4; Rep. Nunez, Hills. 37
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies the meaning of default generation supply service from the distribution utility 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22-2526
12/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to default service for net metering.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Default Service for Net 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. For the purposes of this section, default generation supply service from the distribution utility shall be defined as the electrical energy portion of such supply and shall exclude ancillary components such as ISO New England forward capacity market payments, renewable portfolio standard costs, administrative costs, supplier profits, and any other non-electrical energy components as determined by the commission. 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 100 megawatts, with 50 megawatts of the 100 megawatts allocated to the 4 electric distribution utilities that were subject to the commission's jurisdiction in 2010 multiplied by each such utility's percentage share of the total 2010 annual coincident peak energy demand distributed by those 4 utilities, and 50 megawatts of the 100 megawatts allocated to the state's 3 investor-owned electric distribution utilities, multiplied by each such utility's percentage share of the total 2010 annual coincident peak energy demand distributed by those 3 utilities, all to be determined by the commission and to be utilized by eligible customer-generators located within each such utilities' service territory. Eighty percent of each utility's share of the 50 megawatts shall be apportioned to facilities with a total generating capacity of not more than 100 kilowatts and 20 percent to facilities with a total generating capacity in excess of 100 kilowatts, but no greater than one megawatt. The 50 megawatts of capacity shall be made available to eligible customer-generators until such time as commission approved alternative net metering tariffs approved by the commission become available. No more than 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.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
22-2526
12/22/21
HB 1629-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to default service for net metering.
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. The Department of Energy was contacted for a fiscal note worksheet initially on 10/15/2021 and again on 11/10/2021 and 12/14/2021. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Energy
