Bill Text: NH SB68 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to municipal host for purposes of limited electrical energy producers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 05/04/2023 House Journal 13 P. 17 [SB68 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2023-SB68-Introduced.html
SB 68-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0789
10/08
SENATE BILL 68-FN
AN ACT relative to municipal host for purposes of limited electrical energy producers.
SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill removes the requirement that a municipal host under the limited electrical energy producers act be located in the same municipality as all group members.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0789
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to municipal host for purposes of limited electrical energy producers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act; Definitions. Amend RSA 362-A:1-a, II-c to read as follows:
II-c. "Municipal host" means a customer generator with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt and less than 5 megawatts used to offset the electricity requirements of a group consisting exclusively of one or more customers who are political subdivisions, provided that all customers are located within the same utility franchise service territory. [A municipal host shall be located in the same municipality as all group members if the facility began operation after January 1, 2021.] A municipal host may be owned by either a public or private entity. For this definition, "political subdivision" means the state of New Hampshire or any city, town, county, school district, chartered public school, village district, school administrative unit, or any district or entity created for a special purpose administered or funded by any of the above-named governmental units.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
23-0789
1/11/23
SB 68-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to municipal host for purposes of limited electrical energy producers.
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. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Energy
