HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1571        FILED ON: 1/17/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2964

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Alice Hanlon Peisch

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to energy efficiency funds generated by municipal light plants.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Alice Hanlon Peisch

14th Norfolk

1/17/2013

Cynthia S. Creem

First Middlesex and Norfolk

1/30/2013

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

1/31/2013

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

1/30/2013

Matthew A. Beaton

11th Worcester

1/31/2013

Garrett J. Bradley

3rd Plymouth

1/31/2013

Paul Brodeur

32nd Middlesex

1/31/2013

Mark J. Cusack

5th Norfolk

 

Lori A. Ehrlich

8th Essex

1/22/2013

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

 

Patricia A. Haddad

5th Bristol

2/1/2013

Bradford Hill

4th Essex

 

Kate Hogan

3rd Middlesex

1/30/2013

Donald Humason

 

 

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/28/2013

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

1/28/2013

Michael R. Knapik

Second Hampden and Hampshire

 

Harold P. Naughton, Jr.

12th Worcester

1/31/2013

Shaunna O'Connell

3rd Bristol

 

James J. O'Day

14th Worcester

1/28/2013

Keiko M. Orrall

12th Bristol

1/30/2013

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

1/31/2013

John H. Rogers

12th Norfolk

1/31/2013

Michael F. Rush

Norfolk and Suffolk

 

John W. Scibak

2nd Hampshire

2/1/2013

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

 

James E. Timilty

Bristol and Norfolk

 

Aaron Vega

5th Hampden

1/29/2013

Joseph F. Wagner

8th Hampden

2/1/2013

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

2/1/2013


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1571        FILED ON: 1/17/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2964

By Ms. Peisch of Wellesley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2964) of Alice Hanlon Peisch and others relative to energy efficiency funds generated by municipal light plants.  Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen

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An Act relative to energy efficiency funds generated by municipal light plants.

 

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

Chapter 25 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:-

Section 19 ½.  In addition to any other amounts derived from sources internal or external to Municipal Lighting Plants,  costs associated with energy efficiency programs including but not limited to, demand side management programs  established by such Municipal Lighting Plants, shall be funded, without further appropriation,  from those amounts generated from cap and trade pollution control programs, including, but not limited to, and subject to section 22 of chapter 21A,  amounts generated by the carbon dioxide allowance trading mechanism established under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Memorandum of Understanding, as defined in subsection (a) of section 22 of chapter 21A. Such amounts shall be allocated based on the percentage of each municipal lighting plants’ electricity sales relative to total electricity sales statewide as determined by the Department of Energy Resources and not less than 80 per cent of such allocated amounts shall be returned to such Municipal Lighting Plants for implementation of such aforementioned programs.

Such municipal lighting plants’ programs funded by those additional amounts pursuant to this section shall be administered by each municipal lighting plant through either the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company or Energy New England LLC or their successors as determined by each municipal lighting plant.

Each municipal lighting plant shall include an itemization of expenditures of those funds received under this section in its annual return filed pursuant to section 63 of chapter 164.

Provided however that a municipal light plant may annually at its option elect not to participate in those additional amounts available under this section. In the event of such election such municipal lighting plant would not be subject to the energy efficiency and demand side management programs requirements established under this section.

Any amounts distributed pursuant to and received by municipal lighting plants under this section shall not subject municipal lighting plants to any other general or special law.