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NH Rev Stat § 362-A:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:2-a - Purchase of Output by Private Sector.

    362-A:2-a Purchase of Output by Private Sector. –||I. A limited producer of electrical energy shall have the authority to sell its produced electrical energy to not more than 3 purchasers other than the franchise electric utility, unless additional authority to sell is otherwise allowed by statute or commission order. Such purchaser may be any individual, partnership, corporation, or association. The commission may authorize a limited producer, including eligible customer-generators, to sell electricity at retail, either directly or indirectly through an electricity supplier, within a limited geographic area where the purchasers of electricity from the limited producer shall not be charged a transmission tariff or rate for such sales if transmission facilities or capacity under federal jurisdiction are not used or needed for the transaction. The public utilities commission shall review and approve all contracts concerning a retail sale of electricity pursuant to this section. The public utilities commission shall not set the terms of such contracts but may disapprove any contract which in its judgment:||(a) Fails to protect both parties against excessive liability or undue risk, or||(b) Entails substantial cost or risk to the electric utility in whose franchise area the sale takes place, or||(c) Is inconsistent with the public good.||II. Upon request of a limited producer, any franchised electrical public utility in the transmission area shall transmit electrical energy from the producer's facility to the purchaser's facility in accordance with the provisions of this section. The producer shall compensate the transmitter for all costs incurred in wheeling and delivering the current to the purchaser. The public utilities commission must approve all such agreements for the wheeling of power and retains the right to order such wheeling and to set such terms for a wheeling agreement including price that it deems necessary. The public utilities commission or any party involved in a wheeling transaction may demand a full hearing before the commission for the review of any and all of the terms of a wheeling agreement.||III. Before ordering an electric utility to wheel power from a limited electric producer or before approving any agreement for the wheeling of power, the public utilities commission must find that such an order or agreement:||(a) Is not likely to result in a reasonably ascertainable uncompensated loss for any party affected by the wheeling transaction.||(b) Will not place an undue burden on any party affected by the wheeling transaction.||(c) Will not unreasonably impair the reliability of the electric utility wheeling the power.||(d) Will not impair the ability of the franchised electric utility wheeling the power to render adequate service to its customers.|||Source. 1979, 411:1. 1998, 261:5, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:3 - Purchase of Output of Limited Electrical Energy Producers by Public Utilities.

    362-A:3 Purchase of Output of Limited Electrical Energy Producers by Public Utilities. –||I. The entire output of electric energy of such limited electrical energy producers, if offered for sale to the electric utility, shall be purchased by the electric public utility which serves the franchise area in which the installations of such producers are located.||II. No purchases and related transactions involving qualifying facilities shall take place under RSA 362-A:3 or RSA 362-A:4 in any location where retail electric competition is certified to exist pursuant to RSA 38:36, unless such purchase or related transaction is pursuant to:||(a) Commission orders or agreements providing for qualifying facility power sales existing prior to such certification;||(b) Negotiated qualifying facility power purchase contracts existing prior to such certification; or||(c) Commission orders or agreements resulting from the renegotiation of orders, agreements, or contracts referenced in subparagraphs (a) and (b).|||Source. 1978, 32:1. 1979, 411:2. 1983, 395:3. 1998, 261:6, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:3-a - Repealed by 2021, 228:2, Pt. IV, Sec. 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.

    362-A:3-a Repealed by 2021, 228:2, Pt. IV, Sec. 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021. –|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:4 - Payment by Public Utilities for Purchase of Output.

    362-A:4 Payment by Public Utilities for Purchase of Output. –||Public utilities purchasing electrical energy in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall pay rates per kilowatt hour to be set from time to time by the commission. Such rates shall be based on the purchasing utility's avoided costs. The commission may set long term rates which shall, at the option of the qualifying small power producer or qualifying cogenerator, be based on the purchasing utility's avoided costs either calculated for the time of delivery or calculated for a specified term at the time the qualifying small power producer or qualifying cogenerator agrees to be obligated to deliver for the specified term. Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of any electric utility or any qualifying small power producer or qualifying cogenerator to agree to a rate for any purchase which differs from the rate or terms or conditions which would otherwise be required by the commission. No payments or rates shall be required by this section in locations where retail electric competition is certified to exist pursuant to RSA 38:36, unless such payments or rates are pursuant to an arrangement authorized by RSA 362-A:3.|||Source. 1978, 32:1. 1983, 395:4. 1998, 261:7, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:4-a - Additions to Capacity of Small Power Production Facilities.

    362-A:4-a Additions to Capacity of Small Power Production Facilities. –||Any qualifying small power production facility already subject to rates established by order of the commission may increase its capacity and energy or energy, provided it continues to be a small power production facility. Any capacity additions and the associated energy additions or the energy additions to such qualifying small power production facility shall be purchased in accordance with applicable law and may be purchased under a contract. Such capacity addition and associated energy additions or energy additions shall not be purchased under the rates established by existing orders of the commission. Such rates and orders shall otherwise remain applicable to the qualifying small power production facility.|||Source. 1989, 211:2, eff. July 21, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:4-b - Repealed by 1998, 261:15, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.

    362-A:4-b Repealed by 1998, 261:15, eff. Aug. 25, 1998. –|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:4-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:4-c - Consideration by the Commission.

    362-A:4-c Consideration by the Commission. –||I. The commission shall independently and expeditiously consider any mutually acceptable agreement for the buydown, buyout, or renegotiation of any existing commission order providing for qualifying facility power sales or power purchase agreement regardless of the status of any other such pending renegotiations.||II. The commission shall not approve any buyout of a listed facility prior to July 1, 2000. The commission shall not approve any buyout of a listed facility until competition is certified to exist in at least 70 percent of the state pursuant to RSA 38:36.||III. The commission shall not approve any renegotiation which places restrictions on selling the output of the qualifying facility in a competitive generation market pursuant to RSA 374-F.||IV. The commission shall not approve any renegotiation of a commission order providing for power sales from a listed facility if, for any calendar year prior to 2006, that renegotiation would reduce the total number of kilowatt hours being purchased annually at predetermined prices from all listed facilities to less than 80 percent of the base listed-facility kilowatt hours for that calendar year.||V. In this section:||(a) "Base listed-facility kilowatt hours for that calendar year" means the total number of kilowatt hours which would have been purchased during the calendar year from all listed facilities if the renegotiated rate orders for all such listed facilities pending before the commission as of January 1, 1998 had been approved.||(b) "Buyout" means any modification of any existing commission order providing for power sales from a listed facility that (i) changes the termination date of that order to an earlier date, unless the modified termination date is not earlier than the termination date in the renegotiated buydown for that listed facility which was pending before the commission as of January 1, 1998, or (ii) eliminates predetermined prices for any of the output of the facility covered by the rate order.||(c) "Listed facility" means any of the 5 wood-fired qualifying facilities having rate orders which, as of January 1, 1998, provide the right to sell at least 10 megawatts of capacity and associated energy to Public Service Company of New Hampshire.|||Source. 1994, 362:13. 1998, 261:8, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:4-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:4-d - Retention of Savings by Electric Utility.

    362-A:4-d Retention of Savings by Electric Utility. –||An electric utility that is party to an approved renegotiation of a commission order under RSA 362-A:4-c shall be entitled to retain 20 percent of the savings resulting from such renegotiation.|||Source. 2000, 249:1. 2001, 29:8, eff. May 22, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:5 - Settlement of Disputes.

    362-A:5 Settlement of Disputes. –||Any dispute arising under the provisions of this chapter may be referred by any party to the commission for adjudication.|||Source. 1978, 32:1. 1983, 395:4, eff. Aug. 21, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:6 - Repealed by 1997, 294:3, eff. March 1, 1997.

    362-A:6 Repealed by 1997, 294:3, eff. March 1, 1997. –|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:6-a - Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreements for Renewable Generation Facilities.

    362-A:6-a Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreements for Renewable Generation Facilities. –||The owner, or a lessee responsible for payment of taxes, of a renewable generation facility and the municipality in which the facility is located may enter into a voluntary agreement to make a payment in lieu of taxes, pursuant to RSA 72:74.|||Source. 2006, 294:7, eff. April 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:7 - Hydroelectric Fund Authorized.

    362-A:7 Hydroelectric Fund Authorized. –||Any town or city may establish a hydroelectric fund to hold a portion of the revenue received from its hydroelectric plant. The hydroelectric fund may be established by a majority vote at an annual or special town meeting or majority vote of the city council. If established, the town or city treasurer shall have custody of the hydroelectric fund, and shall pay out the same upon orders of the selectmen or city council, after the specified sum to be withdrawn has been authorized by a majority vote at an annual or special town meeting or majority vote of the city council. Money from this fund may be used for any purpose for which the town or city may appropriate money.|||Source. 1985, 145:1, eff. May 20, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-A - Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act|Section 362-A:8 - Payment Obligations; Public Utilities.

    362-A:8 Payment Obligations;  Public Utilities. –||I. The purpose of this section is to codify existing law on regulatory obligations of public utilities for the purchase, pursuant to applicable federal and state law and commission orders, of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying small power producers and qualifying cogenerators.||II. (a) Energy or energy and capacity provided by qualifying small power producers and qualifying cogenerators under commission orders or negotiated power purchase contracts are part of the energy mix relied on by the commission to serve the present and future energy needs of the state. The rates established in orders by the commission for the purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying small power producers and qualifying cogenerators under this chapter or under applicable federal law exist under the legislative and regulatory authority of the state and shall be deemed a state approved legally enforceable obligation.||(b) The commission shall, in all decisions affecting qualifying small power producers and qualifying cogenerators, consider the following factors in its decisions:||(1) The economic impact upon the state, including, but not limited to, job loss or creation through the utilization of indigenous fuels for electric generation.||(2) The community impact including, but not limited to, property tax payments and job creation.||(3) Enhanced energy security by utilizing mixed energy sources, including indigenous and renewable electrical energy production.||(4) Potential environmental and health-related impacts.||(5) The impact on electric rates.||III. The invalidity of any part of this section shall not destroy the section as a whole if its general purpose can be accomplished, notwithstanding any such invalidity.|||Source. 1988, 174:1. 1994, 362:3. 1998, 261:9, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:1 - Declaration of Purpose and Findings.

    362-C:1 Declaration of Purpose and Findings. –||The legislature finds that:||I. The health, safety and welfare of the people of the state of New Hampshire and orderly growth of the state's economy require that there be a sound system for the furnishing of electric service.||II. The bankruptcy of the state's largest electric utility, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, has threatened the adequacy, reliability and cost of electric service.||III. The present and predicted growth in electric service demands in the state of New Hampshire requires a prompt resolution of the bankruptcy and reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire.||IV. For the reasons stated in paragraphs I-III, the public utilities commission should be authorized to determine whether a proposed agreement relating to the reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire and, upon receipt of required regulatory approvals, the acquisition of Public Service Company of New Hampshire by Northeast Utilities, would be consistent with the public good and whether the rates for electric service to be established in connection with the reorganization are just and reasonable and should be approved.||V. In addition, the public utilities commission should be authorized to determine whether to implement a similar rate plan for the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc., in order to avoid a bankruptcy by that utility.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:2 - Definitions.

    362-C:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Agreement" means the agreement dated as of November 22, 1989, as amended through December 14, 1989, executed by and between the governor and attorney general of the state of New Hampshire, acting on behalf of the state of New Hampshire, and Northeast Utilities Service Company, acting on behalf of its parent, Northeast Utilities.||II. "Alternative reorganization plan" means a plan of reorganization filed in the Public Service Company of New Hampshire bankruptcy case, other than the NU plan.||III. "Commission" means the public utilities commission established in RSA 363.||IV. "NU plan" means the amended plan of reorganization filed in December of 1989, by Northeast Utilities Service Company which provides for the resolution of the outstanding creditor claims and equity security interests of Public Service Company of New Hampshire in the Public Service Company of New Hampshire bankruptcy case.||V. "Public Service Company of New Hampshire bankruptcy case" means the proceeding pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire (Case No. 88-00043) for the reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:3 - Action by the Commission.

    362-C:3 Action by the Commission. –||The commission is authorized, after hearing, in one or more proceedings to be initiated and completed during the pendency of the Public Service Company of New Hampshire bankruptcy, to determine whether the implementation of the agreement would be consistent with the public good. If the commission so finds, it shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, establish and place into effect the levels of rates, fares, or charges and the fuel and purchased power adjustment clause to be maintained for Public Service Company of New Hampshire, or its successor, in accordance with, and during the time periods set forth in, the agreement; then the commission shall initiate such other proceedings, hold such other hearings and take such other actions as may be necessary to implement the provisions of the agreement.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:4 - Establishment of Temporary Rates.

    362-C:4 Establishment of Temporary Rates. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall establish a 5.5 percent temporary rate surcharge to be made effective on January 1, 1990, for the retail electric rates of Public Service Company of New Hampshire, or its successor, in accordance with the agreement. The incremental increase in revenues resulting from the temporary rate surcharge shall be ordered segregated and held in escrow by an escrow agent approved by the commission pending disposition in the manner provided in the agreement or in an alternative reorganization plan approved by the commission pursuant to RSA 362-C:5.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:5 - Alternative Reorganization Plans.

    362-C:5 Alternative Reorganization Plans. –||The authorization granted to the commission in RSA 362-C:3 shall extend to any alternative reorganization plan which the commission affirmatively finds will resolve the Public Service Company of New Hampshire bankruptcy case and will result in the same or lower costs and risks to ratepayers and the same or greater benefits to the state as those resulting from the NU plan and the agreement both during the time periods in which rates increases are prescribed in the agreement and thereafter.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:6 - Finality of Approval.

    362-C:6 Finality of Approval. –||If the commission takes final action under RSA 362-C:3 or RSA 362-C:5 to approve the agreement and to fix the rates for Public Service Company of New Hampshire or its successor in the manner prescribed in the agreement, or to approve and implement an alternative reorganization plan, or both, the commission shall not thereafter issue any order or process which would alter, amend, suspend, annul, set aside or otherwise modify such approval or result in the fixing of rates other than in the manner prescribed in the agreement or the approved alternative reorganization plan.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:7 - Rate Plan for the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.

    362-C:7 Rate Plan for the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall establish a 5.5 percent temporary rate surcharge to be made effective on January 1, 1990, for the retail electric rates of the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc., to be held in escrow in the manner provided in RSA 362-C:4. The commission is further authorized to approve a rate plan proposed by the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative Inc., provided that it finds such a rate plan to be consistent with the public good and that it results in no greater costs and risks to members of the cooperative than those resulting for ratepayers of Public Service Company of New Hampshire under the agreement. If the commission approves such a rate plan and fixes permanent rates under such plan, the revenues collected under the temporary rate surcharge shall be paid over to the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc. If no such rate plan is approved within 90 days following the date on which a bankruptcy rate plan for Public Service Company of New Hampshire becomes effective, the temporary rate surcharge shall terminate and the revenues collected under such surcharge shall be refunded to customers. An order of the commission approving a rate plan under this section shall have the same finality as that provided in RSA 362-C:6 for approval orders relating to Public Service Company of New Hampshire.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:7-a - Transportation of Low-Level and High-Level Radioactive Waste for Disposal Prohibited.

    362-C:7-a Transportation of Low-Level and High-Level Radioactive Waste for Disposal Prohibited. –||Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, no utility shall transport into the state of New Hampshire any low-level or high-level radioactive waste for disposal in New Hampshire.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1. 1999, 194:3, eff. Sept. 4, 1999.|