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Requiring public meetings related to energy efficiency plans filed by rate-regulated gas or electric utilities with the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2021
- 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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires public meetings related to energy efficiency plans filed by rate-regulated gas or electric utilities with the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce. The bill requires rate-regulated gas or electric utilities to, in coordination with the office of consumer advocate, arrange and conduct public meetings related to energy efficiency plans with each community action agency within the gas or electric utility’s service territory in each county where the gas or electric utility provides service.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires a meeting to be conducted when the gas or electric utility is preparing a new energy efficiency plan, after the gas or electric utility has prepared a new plan but before the gas or electric utility has filed the plan, and during the implementation of a plan. Additionally, the bill requires a meeting to be conducted when the gas or electric utility is preparing a modification of a plan and after the gas or electric utility has prepared a modification of a plan but before the gas or electric utility has submitted an application to modify the plan. The bill authorizes the consumer advocate to waive the requirement for meetings related to the modification of a plan if requested by the gas or electric utility and the community action agency. The bill requires the gas or electric utility to pay all costs of the public meetings, including costs incurred by the community action agency, from moneys approved by the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce for the promotion of customer participation in energy efficiency plans.