An Act To Encourage Energy Efficiency and Security LR 1680(02)
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0352
Committee Amendment CA_A_S87 (Senate)
Amends: 35-A MRSA §3211-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
.. A.. to 
Act To Encourage Energy Efficiency 
S.P. 128, L.D. 
and Security" 
352, Bill, "An 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting 
clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3211-A, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 
624, §4, is amended by amending the first paragraph to read: 
2. 
Programs. 
The 
commission shall develop and, 
to the 
extent of available funds, 
implement conservation programs in 
accordance with this section. 
The commission shall establish 
and, 
on 
a 
schedule 
determined 
by 
the 
commission, 
revise 
objectives 
and 
an 
overall 
energy 
strategy 
for 
conservation 
programs. 
Conservation programs 
implemented by the 
commission 
must be consistent with the objectives and an overall energy 
strategy developed by the commission and be cost effective, as 
defined by the commission by rule or order. 
In defining "cost 
effective," the commission may consider the extent to which a 
program 
promotes 
sustainable 
economic 
development 
or 
reduces 
environmental damage to the extent the commission can quantify or 
otherwise reasonably identify such effects. 
Consistent with the 
other requirements of this section, the commission, in adol?ting 
and iml?lementing conservation l?rograms, shall seek to encourage 
efficiency 
in 
electricity 
use, 
l?royide 
incentives 
for 
the 
develol?ment of new, 
energy-efficient business activity in the 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 'A" to S,P, 128, L,D, 352 
State and take into account the costs and benefits of energy 
efficiency and conservation to existing business activity in the 
State. 
Sec. 2. 
Report. 
The 
Public 
Utilities 
Commission 
shall 
undertake an investigation to identify rate designs, mechanisms 
or other means 
that provide incentives for 
transmission and 
distribution utilities to promote energy efficiency and that 
promote the security and robustness of the electric grid by 
appropriately 
compensating 
transmission 
and 
distribution 
utilities 
for 
constructing 
and 
maintaining 
additional 
infrastructure that the commission determines necessary to ensure 
the security and robustness of the grid in underserved areas of 
the State. 
In conducting its investigation, in addition to any 
other 
issues 
the 
commission 
determines 
appropriate, 
the 
commission shall consider: 
1. 
Rate design mechanisms that encourage efficiency in 
electric use, 
provide incentives for the development of 
new 
energy-efficient business activity in the State and take into 
account 
the 
costs 
and 
benefits 
of 
energy 
efficiency 
and 
conservation to existing business activity in the State: 
2. 
Financial and 
distribution utilities 
goals of this section: 
other incentives 
or their customers 
for 
transmission and 
that may support the 
3. 
The impact of achieving the goals of this section on the 
revenues and rates of return of transmission and distribution 
utilities; 
4. 
Methods 
available 
pursuant 
to 
the 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, sections 3195 and 3211-A to accomplish the 
purposes of this section; 
5. 
The impact of achieving the goals of this 
transmission 
and distribution utility rate 
levels 
stability: and 
section on 
and 
rate 
6. The impact of electricity generation and consumption on 
air and water quality. 
By February 1, 2004, the commission shall submit a report of 
the results of its investigation under this section to the Joint 
Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy.' 
SUMMARY 
so 
This amendment replaces the bill. 
This amendment: 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "~,, to S.P. 128, L.D. 352 
1. 
As 
in 
the 
bill, 
requires 
the 
Public 
Utilities 
Commission, 
in 
adopting 
conservation 
programs, 
to 
seek 
to 
encourage efficiency in electricity use, provide incentives for 
the development of new, energy-efficient business activity in the 
State and take into account the' costs and benefits of energy 
efficiency and conservation to existing business activity in the 
State; and 
2. 
As in the bill, requires the Public Utilities Commission 
to 
undertake 
an 
investigation 
to 
identify 
rate 
designs, 
mechanisms 
or 
other 
means 
that 
provide 
incentives 
for 
transmission 
and 
distribution 
utilities 
to 
promote 
energy 
efficiency and that promote the security and robustness of the 
electric grid. 
FISCAL :\OrE nEQURED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/23/03 hac:.. 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
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Committee: Utilites and Energy 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
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