CHAPTER 308

HB 1599-FN - FINAL VERSION

04/28/2022   1841s

26May2022... 2115EBA

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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AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires the public utilities commission to consider whether changes should be made to net metering 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04/28/2022   1841s

26May2022... 2115EBA 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:

308:1  New Paragraph; Net Energy Metering.  Amend RSA 362-A:9 by inserting after paragraph XXI the following new paragraph:

XXII.  When the department of energy’s distributed energy resource valuation study is completed and thereafter the public utilities commission opens a new proceeding that includes consideration of the adoption of net metering tariffs that apply to newly-constructed customer-generators with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt, the commission shall consider whether and when further changes should be made to the net metering tariff structure approved in order no. 26,029 issued on June 23, 2017, applicable to such newly-constructed customer-generators.  Such consideration of net metering tariffs that apply to newly-constructed customer-generators with a total peak generating capacity of greater than one megawatt shall include but not be limited to whether or not the cost of compliance with the electric renewable portfolio standard, RSA 362-F, inclusive of prior period reconciliations, should be excluded from the monetary credit for exports to the grid, as well as whether or not the monetary credit should include compensation for services and value currently not compensated such as avoided transmission, distribution, and capacity costs and other grid services.

308:2  Contingency.  If SB 262 of the 2022 regular session becomes law, RSA 362-A:9, XXII as inserted by section 1 of this act shall be renumbered to read as RSA 362-A:9, XXIII.

308:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: July 01, 2022

Effective Date: August 30, 2022