Proposed Substitute
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LCO NO. 3389

AN ACT CONCERNING BIOMASS FACILITIES AND CERTAIN
VIRTUAL NET METERING FACILITIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

1 Section 1. Section 16-244l of the general statutes is repealed and the
2 following is substituted in lieu thereof (E festive from passage):

The administrator of any project utilizing fuel cells with an
electricity purchase agreement entered into and approved by the
Public Utilities Regulatory Authority pursuant to subsection of
section 16?244c with a generating capacity of not greater than five
megawatts, to be sited within fifty feet of a natural gas transmission
facility that operates at pressures in excess of one hundred fifty



pounds, may submit a request to said authority for a modification to
10 such purchase agreement that would permit the project to move to an
11 alternative location and allow for an equitable adjustment in contract
12 pricing to account for any change in the project attributable to the
13 change in location. Said authority shall open a docket to review such
14 modification request not later than thirty days after receipt of such
15 request. Said authority may approve such modification request not
16 later than one hundred twenty days after receipt of such request.
17 Factors affecting such modification shall be limited to location, contract
18 pricing and schedule attributable to the change in location. No existing

 

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electricity purchase agreement shall be cancelled or deemed in
noncompliance by an electric distribution company until such
modification is approved.

The administrator of any project utilizing a biomass facility with
an electricity purchase agreement entered into and approved by the
Public Utilities Regulatory Authority pursuant to subsection of
section 16-244c may submit a request to said authority for a
modification to such purchase agreement that would permit the
project to utilize additional sustainable biomass fuel. Said authority
shall open a docket to review such modification request not later than
thirty days after receipt of such request. Said authority may approve
such modification request not later than one hundred twenty days
after receipt of such request. Factors affecting such modification shall
be limited to the utilization of additional sustainable biomass fuel,

Sec. 2. Section 16?24411 of the general statutes is amended by adding
subsection as follows (E?ective from passage):

(NEW) Where a virtual net metering facility or agricultural
virtual net metering facility requires a permit from the Department of
Energy and Environmental Protection under chapter 446C or chapter
446d and the municipal, state or agricultural customer host has
submitted a virtual net metering application to the electric distribution
company for such virtual net metering facility or agricultural virtual
net metering facility on or before December 1, 2015, and the electric
distribution company has accepted such virtual net metering
application, such municipal, state or agricultural customer host shall
have eighteen months from the date of the issuance "of the final permit
from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to cause
such virtual net metering facility or agricultural virtual net metering
facility to become operational.

 

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:

 

 

 

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