Bill Text: NH SB497 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the class IV hydroelectric requirement under electric renewable portfolio standards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020 Senate Journal 8 [SB497 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-SB497-Introduced.html
SB 497 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2972
10/08
SENATE BILL 497
AN ACT relative to the class IV hydroelectric requirement under electric renewable portfolio standards.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Rep. Backus, Hills. 19; Rep. McGhee, Hills. 40; Rep. Mann, Ches. 2
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill increases the percentage of certain hydroelectric production in electric renewable portfolio standards and modifies the requirements for qualifying hydroelectric facilities.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2972
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to the class IV hydroelectric requirement under electric renewable portfolio standards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Electric Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards; Hydroelectric. Amend the footnote concluding RSA 362-F:3 to read as follows:
*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] II and III shall remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 and class IV shall increase to 3.5 percent beginning 2021, except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, V-VI.
2 Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards; Class IV Hydroelectric Production. Amend RSA 362-F:4, IV(a)(3)(B) to read as follows:
(B) Has a total nameplate capacity of [one MW] 5 MWs or less as measured by the sum of the nameplate capacities of all generators at the facility, is in compliance with applicable Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fish passage restoration requirements, and is interconnected with an electric distribution system located in New Hampshire.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
