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NH Rev Stat § 374-F:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:1 - Purpose.

    374-F:1 Purpose. –||I. The most compelling reason to restructure the New Hampshire electric utility industry is to reduce costs for all consumers of electricity by harnessing the power of competitive markets. The overall public policy goal of restructuring is to develop a more efficient industry structure and regulatory framework that results in a more productive economy by reducing costs to consumers while maintaining safe and reliable electric service with minimum adverse impacts on the environment. Increased customer choice and the development of competitive markets for wholesale and retail electricity services are key elements in a restructured industry that will require unbundling of prices and services and at least functional separation of centralized generation services from transmission and distribution services.||II. A transition to competitive markets for electricity is consistent with the directives of part II, article 83 of the New Hampshire constitution which reads in part: "Free and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of the people and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy it." Competitive markets should provide electricity suppliers with incentives to operate efficiently and cleanly, open markets for new and improved technologies, provide electricity buyers and sellers with appropriate price signals, and improve public confidence in the electric utility industry.||III. The following interdependent policy principles are intended to guide the New Hampshire public utilities commission and the department of energy in implementing a statewide electric utility industry restructuring plan, in establishing interim stranded cost recovery charges, in approving each utility's compliance filing, in streamlining administrative processes to make regulation more efficient, and in regulating a restructured electric utility industry. In addition, these interdependent principles are intended to guide the New Hampshire general court and the department of environmental services and other state agencies in promoting and regulating a restructured electric utility industry.|||Source. 1996, 129:2, eff. May 21, 1996. 2021, 91:279, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:2 - Definitions.

    374-F:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Commission" means the public utilities commission.||I-a. "Default service" means electricity supply that is available to retail customers who are otherwise without an electricity supplier and are ineligible for transition service and is provided by electric distribution utilities under RSA 374-F:3, V or as an alterative, by municipal or county aggregators under RSA 53-E.||I-b. "Department" means the department of energy.||II. "Electricity suppliers" means suppliers of electricity generation services and includes actual electricity generators and brokers, aggregators, and pools that arrange for the supply of electricity generation to meet retail customer demand, which may be municipal or county entities.||III. "FERC" means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.||IV. "Stranded costs" means costs, liabilities, and investments, such as uneconomic assets, that electric utilities would reasonably expect to recover if the existing regulatory structure with retail rates for the bundled provision of electric service continued and that will not be recovered as a result of restructured industry regulation that allows retail choice of electricity suppliers, unless a specific mechanism for such cost recovery is provided. Stranded costs may only include costs of:||(a) Existing commitments or obligations incurred prior to the effective date of this chapter;||(b) Renegotiated commitments approved by the commission;||(c) New mandated commitments approved by the commission, including any specific expenditures authorized for stranded cost recovery pursuant to any commission-approved plan to implement electric utility restructuring in the territory previously serviced by Connecticut Valley Electric Company, Inc.;||(d) Costs approved for recovery by the commission in connection with the divestiture or retirement of Public Service Company of New Hampshire generation assets pursuant to RSA 369-B:3-a; and||(e) All costs incurred as a result of fulfilling employee protection obligations pursuant to RSA 369-B:3-b.||V. "Transition service" means electricity supply that is available to existing retail customers prior to each customer's first choice of a competitive electricity supplier and to others, as deemed appropriate by the commission.|||Source. 1996, 129:2. 1998, 191:3, 4. 2003, 56:2, eff. July 20, 2003. 2014, 310:4, eff. Sept. 30, 2014. 2019, 316:17, eff. Oct. 1, 2019. 2021, 91:280, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:4-a - Repealed by 2015, 148:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.

    374-F:4-a Repealed by 2015, 148:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015. –|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:4-b - Ratepayer Protection.

    374-F:4-b Ratepayer Protection. –||I. Within 60 days of the effective date of this section, the commission shall initiate a proceeding to develop rules to allow residential and small commercial customers to choose how they receive communication from competitive electric suppliers and to implement the provisions of this section. Where the commission has adopted rules in conformity with this section, complaints to and proceedings before the commission shall not be subject to RSA 541-A:29 or RSA 541-A:29-a.||II. The department of energy shall enable residential and small commercial customers to compare standard pricing policies and charges and to require competitive electric suppliers to input such information on the department's website. Such information shall be input no less frequently than once per month, unless there is no change in such information. ||III. The department of energy shall review its website every 2 years and ensure that the site remains an efficient tool for the comparison of pricing policies and charges among competitive electric suppliers.||IV. Unless the contract specifies a month-to-month variable rate, no competitive electric supplier shall charge a residential customer a variable rate, including during a contract term or following the expiration of a contract, without first providing written notification in a form approved by the commission of the nature of such variable rate 45 days prior to the commencement of the variable rate. The residential customer shall select the method of written notification at the time the contract is signed. Such customer shall have the option to change the method of notification at any time during the contract.||V. Competitive electric suppliers shall retain records of any of the notices required in this section for a period of not less than 2 years and shall make such records available to the commission upon its request.|||Source. 2015, 268:1, eff. July 20, 2015. 2018, 279:19, eff. Jan. 1, 2019. 2021, 91:282, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:5 - Oversight Committee; Establishment; Report; Meetings.

    374-F:5 Oversight Committee;  Establishment;  Report;  Meetings. –||I. There is established a legislative oversight committee to monitor the transformation of delivery of electric services consisting of 7 members as follows:||(a) Five members of the house, at least 3 of whom shall be members of the committee with jurisdiction over utilities and energy, and at least one of whom shall be a member of a minority party, appointed by the speaker of the house.||(b) Two members of the senate, at least one of whom shall be a member of the committee with jurisdiction over utilities and energy, and at least one of whom shall be a member of the minority party, appointed by the president of the senate.||II. Committee members shall be appointed to 2-year terms expiring on the first Wednesday of even-numbered years. Members may succeed themselves.||III. The committee shall provide an interim report on or before April 1, and an annual report on or before November 1 to the governor, the speaker of the house, the senate president, the state library, the public utilities commission, and the department of energy on activities before the public utilities commission and other cognizant state agencies in regard to evolving changes in the provision of electric services to New Hampshire customers, including modernization of the electric grid, development of technologies for electric storage, electrification of transportation, the growth of distributed generation, the commission's role in a deregulated market, and such matters as may arise that may present opportunities to improve the delivery of electric services or to reduce cost.||IV. The committee shall meet quarterly or as often as is necessary to conduct its business. Four members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.||V. Members shall receive mileage when attending to the duties of the committee.|||Source. 1996, 129:2. 2001, 86:1, 2. 2008, 27:3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008. 2012, 281:6, eff. Jan. 1, 2013. 2018, 253:1, eff. Aug. 11, 2018. 2021, 91:283, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:6 - Duties.

    374-F:6 Duties. –||The committee shall be responsible for the following:||I, II. [Repealed.]||III. Studying implementation issues related to the development of competitive electricity markets, including, but not limited to: the structure, effectiveness, and competitiveness of wholesale and retail electricity markets for New Hampshire; regional cooperation and standards; supply and reliability issues; and opportunities for consumers to monitor prices and alter the amount or timing of their electricity use.||IV. Working on promoting the generation of electricity from renewable energy.||V. Monitoring core energy efficiency programs funded by proceeds from sale of allowances under the regional greenhouse gas initiative program pursuant to RSA 125-O:23, III.||VI. Reviewing state energy efficiency programs under the administration of the public utilities commission to determine what barriers exist to providing all-fuels, comprehensive energy efficiency savings to New Hampshire consumers.|||Source. 1996, 129:2. 2001, 86:3. 2002, 268:5, 9, eff. May 18, 2002. 2012, 281:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2013. 2014, 330:3, eff. Oct. 3, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:8 - Participation in Regional Activities.

    374-F:8 Participation in Regional Activities. –||The department shall advocate for New Hampshire interests before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other regional and federal bodies. The commission shall participate in the activities of the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners, and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and the department shall participate in the activities of the New England States Committee on Electricity, or other similar organizations, and work with the New England Independent System Operator and NEPOOL to advance the interests of New Hampshire with respect to wholesale electric issues, including policy goals relating to fuel diversity, renewable energy, and energy efficiency, and to assure nondiscriminatory open access to a safe, adequate, and reliable transmission system at just and reasonable prices. The department shall advocate against proposed regional or federal rules or policies that are inconsistent with the policies, rules, or laws of New Hampshire. In its participation in regional activities, the commission and the department shall consider how other states' policies will impact New Hampshire rates and work to prevent or minimize any rate impact the commission or department determines to be unjust or unreasonable.|||Source. 2001, 29:7. 2007, 364:2, eff. July 17, 2007. 2018, 376:1, eff. Oct. 2, 2018. 2021, 91:284, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-F:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-F - Electric Utility Restructuring|Section 374-F:9 - Investments by Electric Distribution Companies in Natural Gas.

    374-F:9 Investments by Electric Distribution Companies in Natural Gas. –||An electric distribution company shall not engage in the acquisition of natural gas capacity or supply, or purchase interests in natural gas infrastructure or the siting thereof, at the expense or financial risk of its ratepayers.|||Source. 2019, 94:2, eff. Aug. 18, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:1 - Purpose.

    374-G:1 Purpose. –||Distributed energy resources can increase overall energy efficiency and provide energy security and diversity by eliminating, displacing, or better managing traditional fossil fuel energy deliveries from the centralized bulk power grid, in keeping with the objectives of RSA 362-F:1. It is therefore in the public interest to stimulate investment in distributed energy resources in New Hampshire in diverse ways, including by encouraging New Hampshire electric public utilities to invest in renewable and clean distributed energy resources at the lowest reasonable cost to taxpayers benefiting the transmission and distribution system under state regulatory oversight.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2013, 40:1, eff. Aug. 3, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:2 - Definitions; Exclusions.

    374-G:2 Definitions;  Exclusions. –||I. The following definitions shall apply in this chapter except as otherwise provided:||(a) "Commission" means the public utilities commission.||(b) "Distributed energy resources" means energy storage, electric generation equipment including clean and renewable generation, energy efficiency, demand response, load reduction or control programs, or technologies or devices located on or interconnected to the local electric distribution system for purposes including but not limited to reducing line losses, supporting voltage regulation, or peak load shaving, as part of a strategy for minimizing transmission and distribution costs as provided in RSA 374-F:3, III.||(c) "Electric generation equipment" means devices that produce electric power from sources of primary energy. ||(d) "Primary energy" means an energy form found in nature that has not been subject to any human engineered conversion process including wind energy, solar energy, biomass, biofuels, geothermal energy, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and coal.||II. (a) "Distributed energy resources" in this chapter shall exclude electric generation equipment interconnected with the local electric distribution system at a single point or through a customer's own electrical wiring that is in excess of 5 megawatts.||(b) Any "electric generation equipment" that qualifies as energy storage as defined in RSA 374-H:1, III shall not be subject to any of the requirements of RSA 374-G:3.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2021, 228:2, Pt. I, Sec. 2, eff. Oct. 25, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:3 - Electric Generation Equipment Funded by Public Utility; Requirements.

    374-G:3 Electric Generation Equipment Funded by Public Utility;  Requirements. –||Any electric generation equipment funded in part by a public utility under this chapter is subject to the following requirements:||I. The energy produced by electric generation equipment owned by the public utility shall be used to benefit low-income customers, with such benefit as determined by the commission, as an offset to distribution system losses or the public utility company's own use, or any other use as approved by the commission;||II. The energy produced by electric generation equipment utilizing a non-renewable fuel source that is owned by a customer, or sited on a customer's property shall be used to displace the customer's own use;||III. The energy produced by electric generation equipment utilizing a renewable fuel source that is owned by a customer, or sited on the consumer's premises shall be used to displace the customers own use; however, if energy is occasionally generated in excess of the customer's energy requirements, it may be credited to the customer's account in a subsequent period.||IV. Any biomass-fueled generation shall meet the emission requirements to qualify as eligible biomass technology under RSA 362-F:2, VIII.||V. Any fossil-fuel fueled generation shall produce combined heat and power with a minimum energy efficiency of 60 percent, measured as usable thermal and electrical output in BTUs divided by fuel input in BTUs, shall be installed as an integrated combined heat and power application, and shall meet the following emission standards (in lbs/MW-H): NOx-0.07; CO-0.10; VOCs-0.02. A credit to meet the emission standard may be applied at the rate of one MW-H for each 3.4 million BTUs of heat recovered.||VI. These requirements apply in addition to and do not preempt or replace any emission standards or permitting requirements applicable to a given generation facility under any other applicable state or federal law.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2021, 228:2, Pt. I, Sec. 3, eff. Oct. 25, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:4 - Investments in Distributed Energy Resources.

    374-G:4 Investments in Distributed Energy Resources. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, as provided in RSA 374-G:5, a New Hampshire electric public utility may invest in or own distributed energy resources, located on or inter-connected to the local electric distribution system.||II. Distributed electric generation owned by or receiving investments from an electric utility under this section shall be limited to a cumulative maximum in megawatts of 6 percent of the utility's total distribution peak load in megawatts. This limitation shall not apply to front-of-meter energy storage, the energy storage pilot approved by commission order number 26,209, or demand response.||III. In addition, once the cumulative generation authorized under this chapter for a given public utility reaches 3 percent of the utility's total distribution peak load in megawatts, then that utility shall not be allowed to add any additional non-renewable generation under this chapter, until the cumulative renewable generation installed pursuant to this chapter, as a percentage of total generation installed pursuant to this chapter, shall equal or exceed twice the sum of the then-applicable percentage requirements for class I and class II under RSA 362-F:3.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2021, 228:2, Pt. I, Sec. 4, eff. Oct. 25, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:6 - Exemption; Rural Electric Cooperatives.

    374-G:6 Exemption;  Rural Electric Cooperatives. –||The requirements for commission authorization for recovery of investments under RSA 374-G:5 shall not apply to rural electric cooperatives for which a certificate of deregulation is on file with the commission.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-G:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-G - Electric Utility Investment in Distributed Energy Resources|Section 374-G:7 - Exclusion.

    374-G:7 Exclusion. –||Any renewable generating equipment funded in part by a distribution utility under this chapter shall not be included in the calculation of the total rated generating capacity under RSA 362-A:9, I for purposes of limiting net energy metering.|||Source. 2008, 373:1, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 374-H:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 374-H - Customer Energy Storage|Section 374-H:1 - Definitions.

    374-H:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Commission" means the public utilities commission.||II. "Bring your own device" means a program for encouraging non-utility owned, and especially retail-customer owned, behind-the-meter energy storage to provide value to the electricity system, particularly in terms of peak reduction and avoided transmission and distribution costs. Such a program shall provide just and reasonable compensation, as determined by the commission, including actual avoided transmission and distribution costs, to a participating behind-the-meter energy storage system for the value it provides to the electricity system.||III. "Energy storage" means batteries, flywheels, compressed air energy systems, sensible heat storage or any other technology, system, or device capable of taking electricity and storing it as some form of energy the technology, system, or device can either convert back into electricity or use to displace an electrical load at a later time. Such term shall include standalone technologies, systems, and devices, as well as those co-located with or incorporated into a renewable energy source.||IV. "Front-of-meter storage" means any energy storage that is not behind-the-meter storage and may include energy storage constructed, owned, and/or operated by utilities subject to the same use restrictions in RSA 374-G:4, I.||V. "ISO-New England" means the Independent System Operator New England or any successor entity.||VI. "Local network service" means the term as defined in ISO-New England's transmission, markets, and services tariff, section II.||VII. "Non-utility" means any entity that is not a utility that develops, builds, owns, operates, or assists in the operation of one or more energy storage projects, including retail customers that buy behind-the-meter storage installed on their property.||VIII. "Regional network service" means the term as defined in ISO-New England's transmission, markets, and services tariff, section II.||IX. "Renewable energy source" means a Class I, Class II, or Class IV renewable energy source as defined in RSA 362-F:4.||X. "Utility" and "utilities" mean public utilities as defined in RSA 362:2.||XI. "Wholesale electricity markets" means any energy, capacity, or ancillary service market that ISO-New England operates or may operate pursuant to RSA 362-A:2-a.|||Source. 2021, 228:2, Pt. I, Sec. 1, eff. Oct. 25, 2021.|