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NH Rev Stat § 362-C:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:8 - Rate Design.

    362-C:8 Rate Design. –||Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, during the fixed rate term of the approved agreement or plan the commission shall not cause the allocation of base rate revenue responsibility among residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers in effect on September 15, 1989, for the electric customers, serviced by Public Service Company of New Hampshire or its successor, to change without legislative approval of the commission's finding that such revenue responsibility allocation is unjust or unreasonable.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:9 - Modifications in Agreement or Plan.

    362-C:9 Modifications in Agreement or Plan. –||Any modifications to an approved agreement or plan, including its exhibits, made in accordance with such agreement or plan, which potentially could increase rates, fares or charges shall, in addition to any requirements set forth in such agreement or plan, require the approval of the legislature.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-C:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-C - Reorganization of Public Service Company of New Hampshire|Section 362-C:10 - Wholesale Customers.

    362-C:10 Wholesale Customers. –||Nothing in the agreement or plan approved by the commission under this chapter shall restrict access to Public Service Company of New Hampshire's (PSNH), or its successor's, power supply and transmission resources for PSNH's, or its successor's, existing New Hampshire firm wholesale and transmission utility customers.|||Source. 1989S, 1:1, eff. Dec. 18, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:1 - Definitions.

    362-E:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Commission" means the governor's commission on disability established in RSA 275-C.||II. "Telecommunications equipment assistance" means a teletypewriter or other telecommunications equipment used by a qualified person to conduct telephone communications.||III. "Telecommunications relay service" means a service transmitting messages and information between a person using standard telephone equipment for spoken communications and a qualified person using telecommunications equipment assistance.||IV. "Qualified person" means a person who is unable to reasonably use standard telephone equipment due to a disability, such as being deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired, paraplegic, or unable to use his or her arms.|||Source. 1996, 240:1. 1999, 337:4. 2002, 219:9, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:2 - Administration.

    362-E:2 Administration. –||The commission shall administer the telecommunications equipment assistance program and shall implement the program by contract with one or more entities.|||Source. 1996, 240:1. 1999, 337:5, eff. Jan. 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:3 - Duties.

    362-E:3 Duties. –||The commission shall:||I. Establish:||(a) A program that will enable qualified persons in New Hampshire to access telephone service through the use of telecommunications equipment assistance.||(b) Eligibility criteria, which shall include ability to pay. The telecommunications equipment assistance program shall pay the full costs for persons whose income levels do not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level guidelines published in the Federal Register, exclusive of disability-related expenses.||(c) Guidelines for verifying the applicant's impairment and eligibility.||(d) Limits on equipment availability.||II. Contract services for:||(a) Distributing equipment.||(b) Teaching applicants how to use or access any adaptive equipment.||(c) Evaluating the needs of an applicant in the applicant's customary environment.||(d) Providing assistance to applicants with selection, design, fit, application, and other issues related to the use of assistive devices.||III. Consult with the New Hampshire Telecommunications Relay Services Advisory Board on methods to enhance the current telecommunications relay service and increase accessibility.||IV. Perform any other functions necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1996, 240:1. 1999, 337:6, eff. Jan. 2, 2000; 337:7, eff. Jan. 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:4 - Cooperation.

    362-E:4 Cooperation. –||The commission may cooperate with any local, state, or federal agency or any private organization necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1996, 240:1, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:5 - Rulemaking.

    362-E:5 Rulemaking. –||The commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||I. Eligibility criteria.||II. Procedures for the verification of an applicant's impairment and eligibility.||III. Limits on equipment availability.||IV. The proper administration of this chapter.|||Source. 1996, 240:1. 1999, 337:8, eff. Jan. 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:6 - Funding.

    362-E:6 Funding. –||The telecommunications equipment assistance program shall be funded in an amount not to exceed $96,000 annually from the telecommunications relay service trust fund established by the public utilities commission.|||Source. 1996, 240:1. 1999, 337:9, eff. Jan. 2, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-E:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-E - Telecommunications Equipment Assistance Program|Section 362-E:7 - Annual Report.

    362-E:7 Annual Report. –||The governor's commission on disability shall file a report which shall include the number of persons assisted, all sources of funding, and the total amount disbursed under this chapter. Such report shall be submitted annually to the governor and council, the senate president, the speaker of the house and the public utilities commission, on or before October 1.|||Source. 1996, 240:1, eff. July 1, 1996. 2015, 259:8, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:1 - Purpose.

    362-F:1 Purpose. –||Renewable energy generation technologies can provide fuel diversity to the state and New England generation supply through use of local renewable fuels and resources that serve to displace and thereby lower regional dependence on fossil fuels. This has the potential to lower and stabilize future energy costs by reducing exposure to rising and volatile fossil fuel prices. The use of renewable energy technologies and fuels can also help to keep energy and investment dollars in the state to benefit our own economy. In addition, employing low emission forms of such technologies can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter emissions transported into New Hampshire and also generated in the state, thereby improving air quality and public health, and mitigating against the risks of climate change. It is therefore in the public interest to stimulate investment in low emission renewable energy generation technologies in New England and, in particular, New Hampshire, whether at new or existing facilities.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:3 - Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards.

    362-F:3 Minimum Electric Renewable Portfolio Standards. –||For each year specified in the table below, each provider of electricity shall obtain and retire certificates sufficient in number and class type to meet or exceed the following percentages of total megawatt-hours of electricity supplied by the provider to its end-use customers that year, except to the extent that the provider makes payments to the renewable energy fund under RSA 362-F:10, II:|| 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2025 and thereafter|Class I 0.0% 0.5% 1% 2% 3% 3.8% 5% 6% 15% (*)|Class II 0.0% 0.0% 0.04% 0.08% 0.15% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.7%|Class III 3.5% 4.5% 5.5% 6.5% 1.4% 1.5% 3.0% 8.0% 8.0%|Class IV 0.5% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1.3% 1.4% 1.5% 1.5%| |||*Class I increases an additional 0.9 percent per year from 2015 through 2025. A set percentage of the class I totals shall be satisfied annually by the acquisition of renewable energy certificates from qualifying renewable energy technologies producing useful thermal energy as defined in RSA 362-F:2, XV-a. The set percentage shall be 0.4 percent in 2014, 0.6 percent in 2015, 0.8 percent in 2016, and increased annually by 0.2 percent per year from 2017 through 2023, after which it shall remain unchanged. Class II shall increase to 0.5 percent beginning in 2018, 0.6 percent beginning in 2019, and 0.7 percent beginning in 2020, otherwise classes II-IV shall remain at the same percentages from 2015 through 2025 except as provided in RSA 362-F:4, V-VI.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2012, 272:3, eff. June 19, 2012. 2013, 272:1, eff. July 24, 2013; 279:7, eff. July 27, 2013. 2017, 226:6, eff. July 11, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:5 - Department of Energy Review and Report.

    362-F:5 Department of Energy Review and Report. –||Commencing in January 2011, 2018, and 2025 the department of energy shall conduct a review of the class requirements in RSA 362-F:3 and other aspects of the electric renewable portfolio standard program established by this chapter. Thereafter, the department of energy shall make a report of its findings to the general court by November 1, 2011, 2018, and 2025, respectively, including any recommendations for changes to the class requirements or other aspects of the electric renewable portfolio standard program. The department of energy shall review, in light of the purposes of this chapter and with due consideration of the importance of stable long-term policies:||I. The adequacy or potential adequacy of sources to meet the class requirements of RSA 362-F:3;||II. The class requirements of all sources in light of existing and expected market conditions;||III. The potential for addition of a thermal energy component to the electric renewable portfolio standard;||IV. Increasing the class requirements relative to classes I and II beyond 2025;||V. The possible introduction of any new classes such as an energy efficiency class or the consolidation of existing ones;||VI. The timeframe and manner in which new renewable class I and II sources might transition to and be treated as existing renewable sources and if appropriate, how corresponding portfolio standards of new and existing sources might be adjusted;||VII. The experience with and an evaluation of the benefits and risks of using multi-year purchase agreements for certificates, along with purchased power, relative to meeting the purposes and goals of this chapter at the least cost to consumers and in consideration of the restructuring policy principles of RSA 374-F:3; and||VIII. Alternative methods for renewable portfolio standard compliance, such as competitive procurement through a centralized entity on behalf of all consumers in all areas of the state.||IX. The distribution of the renewable energy fund established in RSA 362-F:10.|||Source. 2007, 26:2. 2008, 368:2, eff. July 11, 2008. 2021, 91:241, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:7 - Sale, Exchange, and Use of Certificates.

    362-F:7 Sale, Exchange, and Use of Certificates. –||I. A certificate may be sold or otherwise exchanged by the source to which it was initially issued or by any other person or entity that acquires the certificate. A certificate may only be used once for compliance with the requirements of this chapter. It may not be used for compliance with this chapter if it has been or will be used for compliance with any similar requirements of another non-federal jurisdiction, or otherwise sold, retired, claimed, or represented as part of any other electrical energy output or sale. Certificates shall only be used by providers of electricity for compliance with the requirements of RSA 362-F:3 in the year in which the generation represented by the certificate was produced, except that unused certificates of the proper class issued for production during the prior 2 years may be used to meet up to 30 percent of a provider's requirements for a given class obligation in the current year of compliance.||II. Certificates from behind-the-meter distributed generation shall be initially issued to the owner of the customer-sited source or its designee, regardless of whether the source has received assistance from the renewable energy fund established in RSA 362-F:10.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2012, 272:12, eff. June 19, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:8 - Information Collection.

    362-F:8 Information Collection. –||I. By July 1 of each year, each provider of electricity shall submit a report to the department of energy, in a form approved by the department of energy, documenting its compliance with the requirements of this chapter for the prior year. The department of energy may investigate compliance and collect any information necessary to verify and audit the information provided to the department of energy by providers of electricity.||II. The department of energy shall adopt rules governing the reporting requirements under paragraph I that are designed to minimize the administrative costs and burden on electricity providers.||III. Beginning October 1, 2019 and by October 1 of each subsequent year, the department of energy shall disclose the information collected under paragraph I as public information in the department of energy annual report pursuant to RSA 362-F:10, IV. No information shall be disclosed to the public that is confidential as defined by department of energy or NEPOOL Generation Information System rules.||IV. The department of energy shall provide as part of the annual renewable energy fund report, pursuant to RSA 362-F:10, IV, renewable portfolio standard compliance costs and average electric rate impact; renewable energy certificate versus alternative compliance payments comparison; and alternative compliance payments by class and provider of electricity. The report shall also include the number of renewable energy certificates that were purchased during the prior compliance year by class.||V. The department of energy shall complete the rulemaking process and submit requests to the administrator of the NEPOOL Generation Information System that are necessary to implement this section no later than April 1, 2019.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2018, 288:1, eff. Aug. 24, 2018. 2021, 91:239, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:9 - Purchased Power Agreements.

    362-F:9 Purchased Power Agreements. –||I. Upon the request of one or more electric distribution companies and after notice and hearing, the department of energy may authorize such company or companies to enter into multi-year purchase agreements with renewable energy sources for certificates, in conjunction with or independent of purchased power agreements from such sources, to meet reasonably projected renewable portfolio requirements and default service needs to the extent of such requirements, if it finds such agreements or such an approach, as may be conditioned by the department of energy, to be in the public interest.||II. In determining the public interest, the department of energy shall find that the proposal is, on balance, substantially consistent with the following factors:||(a) The efficient and cost-effective realization of the purposes and goals of this chapter;||(b) The restructuring policy principles of RSA 374-F:3;||(c) The extent to which such multi-year procurements are likely to create a reasonable mix of resources, in combination with the company's overall energy and capacity portfolio, in light of the energy policy set forth in RSA 378:37 and either the distribution company's integrated least cost resource plan pursuant to RSA 378:37-41, if applicable, or a portfolio management strategy for default service procurement that balances potential benefits and risks to default service customers;||(d) The extent to which such procurement is conducted in a manner that is administratively efficient and promotes market-driven competitive innovations and solutions; and||(e) Economic development and environmental benefits for New Hampshire.||III. The department of energy may authorize one or more distribution companies to coordinate or delegate procurement processes under this section.||IV. Rural electric cooperatives for which a certificate of deregulation is on file with the department of energy shall not be required to seek department of energy authorization for multi-year purchased power agreements or certificate purchase agreements under this section.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2021, 91:241, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:11 - Application.

    362-F:11 Application. –||I. The department of energy, in a non-adjudicative process, shall certify the classification of an existing or proposed generation facility by issuing a determination within 45 days of receiving from an applicant sufficient information to determine its classification. The application shall contain the following:||(a) Name and address of applicant.||(b) Facility location, ISO-New England asset identification number, and NEPOOL GIS facility code, if available.||(c) Description of the facility, including fuel type, gross generation capacity, initial commercial operation date, and, in the case of a biomass source, NOx and particulate matter emission rates and a description of pollution control equipment or practices proposed for compliance with applicable NOx and particulate matter emission rates.||(d) Such other information as the applicant may provide to assist in determining the classification of the generating facility.||II. The department of energy shall certify applications of customer-sited sources in a manner that is compatible with the procedures established for recognizing such production under RSA 362-F:6, II.||III. Biomass facilities otherwise meeting the requirements of a source shall be conditionally certified by the department of energy subject to compliance with the applicable NOx and particulate matter emission standards. Within 10 days of verification of compliance with emissions standards from the department, as provided in RSA 362-F:12, III, the department of energy, in a non-adjudicative process, shall designate the facility as eligible pursuant to RSA 362-F:6, III.||IV. A biomass facility otherwise meeting the eligibility requirements of class III, but which as of January 1, 2012 was not an eligible biomass technology due to the inability to achieve the particulate matter emissions rate specified in RSA 362-F:2, VIII(a), may consult with the department and submit a plan to meet the alternative requirement under that paragraph. The plan shall contain reductions, in the aggregate or individually, in emissions from other emission sources and demonstrate that the reductions will be quantifiable. The department shall expeditiously review the plan and, if approved, provide such information it deems relevant to the department of energy. The application submitted under this section shall inform the department of energy of the plan and the department of energy shall certify the source in accordance with the plan approved by the department.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2012, 272:15, eff. June 19, 2012. 2021, 91:241, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 362-F:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 362-F - Electric Renewable Portfolio Standard|Section 362-F:12 - Verification of Emissions From Biomass Sources.

    362-F:12 Verification of Emissions From Biomass Sources. –||Any source seeking to qualify using an eligible biomass technology shall verify emissions in accordance with the following methods:||I. For nitrogen oxide emissions, the source shall install and operate a continuous emissions monitor that meets departmental standards as codified in rules.||II. For particulate matter emissions, the source shall conduct an annual stack test in accordance with methods approved by the department. Upon completion of 3 annual tests which demonstrate compliance, the source may request of the department for a decrease in the frequency of testing, but to not less than once every 3 years.||III. Each such source shall file with the department and the department of energy within 45 days of the end of each calendar quarter an affidavit and documentation attesting to the source's average NOx emission rate for such quarter and the most recent particulate matter stack test results. For purposes of initial certification under RSA 362-F:6, the results of a stack test may be filed with the department at any time to demonstrate compliance with both the particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions standards. Within 30 days of a filing, the department shall provide verification of the emissions reported in the filing to the department of energy.|||Source. 2007, 26:2, eff. July 10, 2007. 2021, 91:241, eff. July 1, 2021.|