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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6413
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 3166
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT REQUIRING A STUDY OF A MUNICIPAL ENERGY SECURITY
AUTHORITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective July 1, 2021) The Commissioner of Energy and 1
Environmental Protection shall study whether to recognize a municipal 2
energy security authority within the state for purposes of designing, 3
funding, supplying, installing and servicing municipal microgrids to 4
achieve: (1) Energy security objectives; (2) energy affordability; (3) 5
energy resilience, as defined in section 16-243y of the general statutes; 6
(4) carbon reduction; (5) critical infrastructure security hardening, as 7
defined in section 12-39p of the general statutes; and (6) local workforce 8
development in cooperation with federal energy security policy and 9
laws. On or before January 15, 2022, the commissioner shall report the 10
findings of such study, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-11
4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General 12
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 New section
ET Joint Favorable