General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 1049
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4640
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Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AND VIRTUAL NET METERING.

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

Section 1. Subparagraph (A) of subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 16-244u of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(7) (A) "Virtual net metering facility" means a Class I renewable energy source, [or] a Class III source, [that:] or a hydroelectric generating facility owned and operated by a municipal corporation responsible for providing potable water and wastewater control services, whereby the beneficial accounts are owned by a customer host, that: (i) Is served by an electric distribution company, owned, leased or subject to a long-term contract by a customer host and serves the electricity needs of the customer host and its beneficial accounts; (ii) is within the same electric distribution company service territory as the customer host and its beneficial accounts; and (iii) has a nameplate capacity rating of [three] four megawatts or less; and

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	16-244u(a)(7)(A)

Statement of Purpose:

To authorize municipal corporation-owned hydroelectric generating facilities to utilize virtual net metering.

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