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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7252
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5049
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CONSERVATION ADJUSTMENT
MECHANISM AND COMMER CIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of section 16-245m of the 1
general statutes, as amended by section 9 of public act 18-50, is 2
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 3
January 1, 2020): 4
(d) (1) Not later than November 1, 2012, and every three years 5
thereafter, electric distribution companies, as defined in section 16-1, in 6
coordination with the gas companies, as defined in section 16-1, shall 7
submit to the Energy Conservation Management Board a combined 8
electric and gas Conservation and Load Management Plan, in 9
accordance with the provisions of this section, to implement cost-10
effective energy conservation programs, demand management and 11
market transformation initiatives. All supply and conservation and 12
load management options shall be evaluated and selected within an 13
integrated supply and demand planning framework. Services 14
provided under the plan shall be available to all customers of electric 15 Raised Bill No. 7252
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distribution companies and gas companies, provided a customer of an 16
electric distribution company may not be denied such services based 17
on the fuel such customer uses to heat such customer's home. The 18
Energy Conservation Management Board shall advise and assist the 19
electric distribution companies and gas companies in the development 20
of such plan. The Energy Conservation Management Board shall 21
approve the plan before transmitting it to the Commissioner of Energy 22
and Environmental Protection for approval. The commissioner shall, in 23
an uncontested proceeding during which the commissioner may hold 24
a public meeting, approve, modify or reject said plan prepared 25
pursuant to this subsection. Following approval by the commissioner, 26
the board shall assist the companies in implementing the plan and 27
collaborate with the Connecticut Green Bank to further the goals of the 28
plan. Said plan shall include a detailed budget sufficient to fund all 29
energy efficiency that is cost-effective or lower cost than acquisition of 30
equivalent supply, and shall be reviewed and approved by the 31
commissioner. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, not 32
later than sixty days after the plan is approved by the commissioner, 33
ensure that the balance of revenues required to fund such plan is 34
provided through fully reconciling conservation adjustment 35
mechanisms. Electric distribution companies shall collect a 36
conservation adjustment mechanism that ensures the plan is fully 37
funded by collecting an amount that is not more than the sum of six 38
mills per kilowatt hour of electricity sold to each end use customer of 39
an electric distribution company during the three years of any 40
Conservation and Load Management Plan , provided any such 41
conservation adjustment mechanism shall only be applied to the first 42
___ kilowatt hours of electricity sold to commercial and industrial end 43
use customers. The authority shall ensure that the revenues required to 44
fund such plan with regard to gas companies are provided through a 45
fully reconciling conservation adjustment mechanism for each gas 46
company of not more than the equivalent of four and six-tenth cents 47
per hundred cubic feet during the three years of any Conservation and 48
Load Management Plan. Said plan shall include steps that would be 49
needed to achieve the goal of weatherization of eighty per cent of the 50 Raised Bill No. 7252
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state's residential units by 2030 and to reduce energy consumption by 51
1.6 million MMBtu, or the equivalent megawatts of electricity, as 52
defined in subdivision (4) of section 22a-197, annually each year for 53
calendar years commencing on and after January 1, 2020, up to and 54
including calendar year 2025. Each program contained in the plan shall 55
be reviewed by such companies and accepted, modified or rejected by 56
the Energy Conservation Management Board prior to submission to 57
the commissioner for approval. The Energy Conservation Management 58
Board shall, as part of its review, examine opportunities to offer joint 59
programs providing similar efficiency measures that save more than 60
one fuel resource or otherwise to coordinate programs targeted at 61
saving more than one fuel resource. Any costs for joint programs shall 62
be allocated equitably among the conservation programs. The Energy 63
Conservation Management Board shall give preference to projects that 64
maximize the reduction of federally mandated congestion charges. 65
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2020 16-245m(d)(1)
Statement of Purpose:
To require that the conservation adjustment mechanism is only
charged on the first ___ kilowatt-hours of monthly usage for
commercial and industrial customers.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]