SENATE DOCKET, NO. 371        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1484

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act authorizing biomass net metering..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 138 of chapter 164 of the General Laws is amended by adding the following definition after the term “agriculture”:- “biomass net metering facility”, a facility for the production of electrical energy that uses biomass power conversion technologies using fuels such as wood, by-products or waste from agricultural crops, food or animals, energy crops, biogas, liquid biofuel including but not limited to biodiesel, organic refuse-derived fuel, or algae to generate electricity and is interconnected to a distribution company.”

SECTION 2. Said section 138 is amended in line 33, after “agricultural net metering facility” by inserting the following:- “biomass net metering facility,”.

SECTION 3. Said section 138 is amended in line 49, after “agricultural net metering facility” by inserting the following:- “biomass net metering facility,”.

SECTION 4. Said section 138 is amended in line 55, after “solar net metering” by inserting the following:- “, biomass net metering,”.

SECTION 5. Section 139(a) (1) of chapter 164 of the General Laws is amended in line 6, after “wind” by inserting the following:- “, biomass,”.

SECTION 6. Section 139(2) (f) of chapter 164 of the General Laws is amended in line 5, after “facility” by inserting the following:- “or a biomass net metering facility”.