An Act To Allow a Customer with a Net Energy Billing Arrangement To Annually Donate Any Unused Kilowatt-hour Credits
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 1025
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology
Sponsors: BERRY, BRENNER
Amends: 35-A MRSA §3209-A

Legislative Document
No. 1025
H.P. 763
House of Representatives, March 10, 2021
An Act To Allow a Customer with a Net Energy Billing 
Arrangement To Annually Donate Any Unused Kilowatt-hour 
Credits
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative BERRY of Bowdoinham.
Cosponsored by Senator BRENNER of Cumberland.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  35-A MRSA §3209-A, sub-§5 is enacted to read:
5.  Donation of unused kilowatt-hour credits.  Not more than once per year, a 
customer that has a net energy billing arrangement with a transmission and distribution 
utility may donate any unused kilowatt-hour credits accumulated by that customer to 
another customer of that same transmission and distribution utility.
Sec. 2.  Public Utilities Commission review of net energy billing shared 
interest.  The Public Utilities Commission shall review the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
35-A, section 3209-A and the Public Utilities Commission rule Chapter 313, Customer Net 
Energy Billing, to determine if it is unreasonably burdensome for a small number of 
residential customers of a transmission and distribution utility to create a shared financial 
interest in a distributed generation resource for the purposes of net energy billing.  In 
conducting the review, the commission shall also evaluate whether applicable provisions 
are clearly written and easily understandable.  By December 1, 2021, the commission shall 
submit the results of the review conducted pursuant to this section to the Joint Standing 
Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology and shall include any suggested legislation 
or rule changes resulting from the review.  The committee may report out a bill based on 
the report to the Second Regular Session of the 130th Legislature.
SUMMARY
This bill allows, not more than once per year, a customer that has a net energy billing 
arrangement with a transmission and distribution utility to donate any unused kilowatt-hour 
credits accumulated by that customer to another customer of that same transmission and 
distribution utility.
It also requires the Public Utilities Commission to review the Maine Revised Statutes, 
Title 35-A, section 3209-A and its rule Chapter 313, Customer Net Energy Billing, to 
determine if it is unreasonably burdensome for a small number of residential customers of 
a transmission and distribution utility to create a shared financial interest in a distributed 
generation resource for the purposes of net energy billing and to evaluate whether the rules 
regarding shared financial interest among a small number of residential customers only are 
clearly written and easy to understand.  It requires the commission to report back to the 
Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology by December 1, 2021 the 
results of its review and to include any suggested legislation or rule changes.  It allows the 
committee to report out a bill based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 
130th Legislature.