Bill Text: NH HB761 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to customer energy storage.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Science, Technology and Energy House Journal 3 [HB761 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB761-Introduced.html
HB 761-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0898
05/09
HOUSE BILL 761-FN
AN ACT relative to customer energy storage.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cormen, Graf. 15; Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35; Rep. Caplan, Merr. 8; Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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ANALYSIS
This bill provides that the department of energy shall adopt rules relative to installation and use of energy storage systems. The bill also provides that the public utilities commission may approve tariffs and issue orders in adjudicated proceedings consistent with, or in the absence of such rules.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0898
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to customer energy storage.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph, Customer Energy Storage; Definition of Department Added. Amend RSA 374-H:1 by inserting after paragraph II the following paragraph:
II-a. "Department" means the department of energy.
2 Customer Energy Storage; Customer Energy Storage Systems. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 374-H:2, I to read as follows:
I. The [commission] department shall adopt rules [or] and the commission may approve tariffs and issue orders in adjudicated proceedings consistent with or in the absence of such rules clarifying policy for the installation, interconnection, and use of energy storage systems by customers of utilities, and shall incorporate the following principles into the rules or approved tariffs:
3 Customer Energy Storage; Customer Energy Storage Systems. Amend RSA 374-H:2, II(a) to read as follows:
(a) The principles of net energy metering under RSA 362-A:9, except to clarify that the commission has the authority to allow storage as part of net energy metering; or
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
25-0898
1/9/25
HB 761-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to customer energy storage.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from the Department of Energy. The Department was contacted on 12/30/24 for a fiscal note worksheet. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Energy
