HB 1600 (2024)
Correct reference to use of customer data by local electric aggregations
Modifies the requirements for municipal hosts aggregating retail electric customers to participate in net metering.
The House rewrote the bill. According to the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee, this new bill "says that when the electrical power generated by a municipal host serves a municipal or county aggregation such as community power, rather than individual customer accounts, then the municipal host becomes a customer of the municipal or county aggregation rather than being on default service. As a result, that power would reduce the overall load requirements of default service. With a lower default service load, that power might not need to go over transmission lines, which could reduce transmission costs for all ratepayers."
The Senate rewrote the bill again. The Senate version instead establishes a committee to study the aggregation of electric customers by municipalities and counties.
A conference committee of representatives and senators agreed to a final compromise version of the bill. That version revises a legal reference to permitted uses of individual customer data by municipal or county aggregations. The House Science, Technology and Energy Committee referred to this as "a housekeeping measure referring to the correct RSA in relation to customer data."
