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5353 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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5555 1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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5757 SENATE BILL 474 By: Boren
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6363 AS INTRODUCED
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6565 An Act relating to the Corporation Commission;
6666 providing definitions; exempting Distributed Energy
6767 Resource utility from the Retail Electric Supplier
6868 Certified Territory Act ; authorizing Corporation
6969 Commission to promulgate certain rules; establishing
7070 time limit on act; requiring certai n report;
7171 providing for codification; and providing an
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7777 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEO PLE OF THE STATE OF OK LAHOMA:
7878 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
7979 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 8 10 of Title 17, unless there is
8080 created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
8181 A. As used in this sect ion, “Distributed energy resource (DER)
8282 utility” means any company that produces, delivers or furnishes
8383 retail electric current for light, heat or power to a customer
8484 through a power purchase agreement wit h a customer provided that:
8585 1. Generation occurs on the property of the customer that is
8686 contiguous with the use of that power; and
8787 2. Generation shall not exceed one hundred twenty percent
8888 (120%) of the previous annual load of the customer.
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140140 B. As used in this section, “Customer” means an individual or a
141141 business partnership, limited liability company, corporation or
142142 other legal entity receiving service from an electric utility in the
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144144 A customer of a DER utility shall be limited to churches,
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147147 “faith-based institution” means an organization, association,
148148 facility or program that offers s ervices within a context of
149149 religious beliefs that are articu lated by the organization ’s,
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152152 C. A DER utility shall no t be subject to the provisions of the
153153 Retail Electric Supplier Certified Territory Act, Section 158.21 et
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156156 1. Files an application for grid interconnection with the
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158158 2. Submits an annual report on power gener ated by the DER
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215215 D. The Corporation Commission sha ll promulgate rules as
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217217 E. The provisions of th is act shall be valid until November 1,
218218 2031, at which time a report shall be issued by the Office of the
219219 Secretary of Energy and Environment within one (1) y ear, for
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222222 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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