HB 1599-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2763

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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ANALYSIS

 

This bill establishes deductions from the monetary credit for certain exports to the electric grid until the public utilities commission adopts alternative 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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  Customer Generator; Default Service Credit.  Amend RSA 362-A:9, XVI(b) to read as follows:

(b)  Until such time as the commission adopts alternative net metering tariffs that expressly apply to new customer-generators with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt pursuant to the criteria set forth in this paragraph, the provisions of commission order no. 26,029 issued on June 23, 2017 and subsequent orders [applicable to large customer-generators shall be applicable to customer-generators of greater than one megawatt otherwise authorized by statute] shall be applicable, except that the cost of compliance with the electric renewable portfolio standard, RSA 362-F, including prior period reconciliations, shall be deducted from the monetary credit for exports to the grid based on the utility default service energy charge as determined by the commission.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

LBA

22-2763

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

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

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

 

 

 

 

 

LOCAL:

 

 

 

 

   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