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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 845
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E PROCUREMENT OF ENERGY DERIVED
FROM ANAEROBIC DIGES TION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) The Commissioner of 1
Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the 2
procurement manager identified in subsection (l) of section 16-2 of the 3
general statutes, the Office of Consumer Counsel and the Attorney 4
General, shall solicit proposals, in one solicitation or multiple 5
solicitations, from providers of energy derived from anaerobic 6
digestion. 7
(b) If the commissioner finds such proposals to be in the interest of 8
ratepayers, including, but not limited to, the delivered price of such 9
sources, and consistent with the requirements to reduce greenhouse 10
gas emissions in accordance with section 22a-200a of the general 11
statutes, and in accordance with the policy goals outlined in the 12
Comprehensive Energy Strategy, adopted pursuant to section 16a-3d 13
of the general statutes, the commissioner may select proposals from 14
such resources that have a total nameplate capacity rating of not more 15
than ten megawatts in the aggregate. The commissioner may, on behalf 16 Raised Bill No. 845
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of all customers of electric distribution companies, direct the electric 17
distribution companies to enter into power purchase agreements for 18
energy, capacity and environmental attributes, or any combination 19
thereof, for periods of not more than twenty years. 20
(c) Certificates issued by the New England Power Pool Generation 21
Information System procured by an electric distribution company 22
pursuant to this section may be: (1) Sold into the New England Power 23
Pool Generation Information System renewable energy credit market 24
to be used by any electric supplier or electric distribution company to 25
meet the requirements of section 16-245a of the general statutes, 26
provided the revenues from such sale are credited to electric 27
distribution company customers as described in this section; or (2) 28
retained by the electric distribution company to meet the requirements 29
of section 16-245a of the general statutes. In considering whether to sell 30
or retain such certificates, the company shall select the option that is in 31
the best interest of such company's ratepayers. 32
(d) Any such agreement shall be subject to review and approval by 33
the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which review shall 34
commence upon the filing of the signed power purchase agreement 35
with the authority. The authority shall issue a decision on such 36
agreement not later than forty-five days after such filing. In the event 37
the authority does not issue a decision within forty-five days after such 38
agreement is filed with the authority, the agreement shall be deemed 39
approved. 40
(e) The net costs of any such agreement, including costs incurred by 41
the electric distribution company under the agreement and reasonable 42
costs incurred by the electric distribution company in connection with 43
the agreement, shall be recovered on a timely basis through a fully 44
reconciling component of electric rates for all customers of the electric 45
distribution company. Any net revenues from the sale of products 46
purchased in accordance with long-term contracts entered into 47
pursuant to this section shall be credited to customers through the 48
same fully reconciling rate component for all customers of the 49 Raised Bill No. 845
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contracting electric distribution company. 50
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To authorize the procurement of energy derived from anaerobic
digestion.
[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.]