HB 161 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0631
10/05
HOUSE BILL 161
AN ACT relative to customer generators of electricity as group hosts under net metering.
SPONSORS: Rep. McGhee, Hills. 35; Rep. Wolf, Merr. 7; Rep. McWilliams, Merr. 30; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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ANALYSIS
This bill deletes a requirement that a net metering group host not include other customer generators in the distribution group.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0631
10/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to customer generators of electricity as group hosts under net metering.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Group Host Net Energy Metering; Participation. Amend RSA 362-A:9, XIV(a) to read as follows:
XIV.(a) A customer-generator may elect to become a group host for the purpose of reducing or otherwise controlling the energy costs of a group of customers [who are not customer-generators, except that]. A political subdivision, as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, II-c, or the owner of a facility described in RSA 362-A:9, XX, that is a customer-generator, may participate as a group member. The group of customers shall be located within the service territory of the same electric distribution utility as the host. The host shall provide a list of the group members to the commission and the electric distribution utility and shall certify that all members of the group have executed an agreement with the host regarding the utilization of kilowatt hours produced by the eligible facility and that the total historic annual load of the group members together with the host exceeds the projected annual output of the host's facility. The department shall verify that these group requirements have been met and shall register the group host. The department shall establish the process for registering hosts, including periodic re-registration, and the process by which changes in membership are allowed and administered. Net metering tariffs under this section shall not be made available to a customer-generator group host until such host is registered by the department.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.