Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1197

3E Relating to energy; removing a requirement for the office of enterprise
technology to appropriate software sale fund proceeds to the department of
education for the weatherization program; eliminating certain allocations and
temporarily prohibiting approval of certain expenditures from the renewable
development account; clarifying regional and national duties of the department
of commerce relating to energy policy and authorizing an assessment; removing
obsolete and redundant language; authorizing electronic notification of cold
weather rule; modifying reporting requirements for energy conservation
improvements; providing for cost recovery for certain pollution control
products; making technical and clarifying changes relating to charitable
contributions and securities issuance by utilities; modifying certain low-income
affordability programs hearings consideration factors, eliminating inverted
block rates (tier pricing) in which lower energy prices are made available to
lower usage customers; authorizing the public utilities commission (PUC) to
approve multiyear rate plan for certain utilities; providing for nuclear power
plant decommissioning and storage of used nuclear fuel; expanding the definition
of total retail electric sales; requiring a report on the rate impact of
activities of an electric utility; making clarifying and technical changes;
providing for regulatory incentives granted to a natural gas-fired plant located
on one site designated as an innovative energy project; exempting certain
utilities from the conservation improvement program; allowing assessments to
energy utilities for department regional and national duties; relieving the
energy conservation information center from certain data-gathering
responsibilities; modifying the public utilities commission energy conservation
annual status report, the state energy-savings plan weatherization programs
residential coordination grants and rulemaking, and the electric power facility
permits assessment; providing an exemption from greenhouse gas emissions and
conservation improvement program; providing a temporary prohibition on public
utilities commission approval of certain renewable development account
expenditures; permitting the city of Melrose to provide by ordinance for the
size, terms and qualifications for membership on the public utilities
commission; repealing the natural gas inverted rates program, the energy issues
intervention office and the reliability administrator within the department of
commerce, and the wind energy conversion system (WECS) aggregation
program
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