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Relating to certain plans filed by gas and electric utilities, and including retroactive applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 6, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
Current law requires rate-regulated gas and electric utilities to file five-year energy efficiency plans with the Iowa utilities board.5 percent of the gas utility’s expected annual Iowa retail rate revenue from Iowa retail customers, and an electric utility to adopt an energy efficiency plan that results in projected cumulative average annual costs that exceed percent of the electric utility’s expected annual Iowa retail rate revenue from Iowa retail customers. This bill requires five-year energy efficiency plans filed by gas and electric utilities to include weatherization assistance programs for qualified low-income persons, which shall be funded in an amount no less than the amount used to fund such programs in the utility’s five-year energy efficiency plan in effect as of July 1, 2018.
Read the full explanation
5 or percent threshold cap regarding gas or electric utility plan costs, the board shall exclude the utility’s costs of providing low-income weatherization assistance programs. The bill applies retroactively to January 1, 2019, for energy efficiency plans that are effective on or after that date.