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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *sb0110* |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE BILL 110 |
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| 8 | 8 | | C5, M5 2lr0813 |
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| 9 | 9 | | (PRE–FILED) CF 2lr0750 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Senator Kramer |
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| 11 | 11 | | Requested: October 19, 2021 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Introduced and read first time: January 12, 2022 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 17 | 17 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Electricity – Community Solar Energy Generating Systems – Generating 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Capacity 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | FOR the purpose of altering the maximum generating capacity of a community solar energy 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | generating system; and generally relating to community solar energy generating 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | systems. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 7 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Article – Public Utilities 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 7–306.2(a)(1) 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2020 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 11 |
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| 32 | 32 | | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 12 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Article – Public Utilities 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Section 7–306.2(a)(3) 14 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 15 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2020 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 16 |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND , 17 |
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| 39 | 39 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Article – Public Utilities 19 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 7–306.2. 20 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (3) “Community solar energy generating system” means a solar energy 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | system that: 23 2 SENATE BILL 110 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (i) is connected to the electric distribution grid serving the State; 1 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (ii) is located in the same electric service territory as its subscribers; 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (iii) is attached to the electric meter of a subscriber or is a separate 3 |
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| 57 | 57 | | facility with its own electric meter; 4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (iv) credits its generated electricity, or the value of its generated 5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | electricity, to the bills of the subscribers to that system through virtual net energy 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | metering; 7 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (v) has at least two subscribers but no limit to the maximum number 8 |
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| 64 | 64 | | of subscribers; 9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (vi) does not have subscriptions larger than 200 kilowatts 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | constituting more than 60% of its subscriptions; 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (vii) has a generating capacity that does not exceed [2] 5 megawatts 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | as measured by the alternating current rating of the system’s inverter; and 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (viii) may be owned by any person. 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | October 1, 2022. 16 |
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