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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 3479 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6291 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 3479 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | REP. DATHAN, 142nd Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPLOYMENT OF SOLAR ENERGY |
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| 19 | 19 | | SOURCES IN THE STATE. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 21 | 21 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 23 | 23 | | That the general statutes be amended to (1) set a goal of five hundred 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | megawatts of solar photovoltaic electricity generation in the state not 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | later than the year 2027, (2) remove the capacity limit on the Non-3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | residential Renewable Energy Solutions Program, (3) extend the 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | duration of the Shared Clean Energy Facility Program, (4) impose a 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | uniform capacity tax for grid-scale solar photovoltaic installations, (5) 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | streamline the process by which solar photovoltaic facilities are 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | connected to the grid, and (6) create a solar advancement commission 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | for the purpose of making policy recommendations concerning solar 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | deployment in the state. 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 34 | 34 | | To (1) set a goal of five hundred megawatts of solar photovoltaic |
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| 35 | 35 | | electricity generation in the state not later than the year 2027, (2) remove |
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| 36 | 36 | | the capacity limit on the Non-residential Renewable Energy Solutions |
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| 37 | 37 | | Program, (3) extend the duration of the Shared Clean Energy Facility |
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| 38 | 38 | | Program, (4) impose a uniform capacity tax for grid-scale solar Proposed Bill No. 6291 |
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| 41 | 41 | | LCO No. 3479 2 of 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | photovoltaic installations, (5) streamline the process by which solar |
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| 44 | 44 | | photovoltaic facilities are connected to the grid, and (6) create a solar |
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| 45 | 45 | | advancement commission for the purpose of making policy |
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| 46 | 46 | | recommendations concerning solar deployment in the state. |
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