SB 450  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-3006

10/02

 

SENATE BILL 450

 

AN ACT relative to the duties of the grid modernization advisory group.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35

 

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds a duty to the grid modernization advisory group (GMAG) for specific recommendations on long-term transmission planning by the distribution utilities.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3006

10/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to the duties of the grid modernization advisory group.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Subparagraph; Grid Modernization Advisory Group; Duty Added.  Amend RSA 12-P:16, II(a) by inserting after subparagraph (4) the following new subparagraph:

(5) By November 1, 2024, specific recommendations on long-term transmission planning by the distribution utilities regulated by the public utilities commission as well as the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative pursuant to integrated resource plans, which include recoverable costs for investments in grid modernization, as defined in RSA 374-F:2, XI.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.