Amendment #59 to H4876

PowerOptions

Mr. Cahill of Lynn moves to amend the amendment by inserting after section 55 the following section:

SECTION 55B

Said chapter 164 is hereby further amended by striking out section 137, as so appearing, and inserting in place thereof the following section:

Section 137. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, (i) any non-profit ‎institution in the commonwealth or any agency, executive office, department, board, ‎commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, including the executive, ‎legislative and judicial branches of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, ‎or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public, may, unless located within ‎the boundaries of a community served by a municipal light, participate in and become a ‎member of any competitively procured program organized and administered, under this chapter, ‎by or on behalf of any public instrumentality of the commonwealth or of any subsidiary ‎organization thereof for the purpose of group purchasing of electricity, natural gas, ‎telecommunications services, supply or any product, equipment or good in connection with ‎including but not limited to a renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation, building or ‎transportation decarbonization or climatetech  project; (ii) the disposition of municipal or state ‎real property by lease, easement or license for renewable energy shall not require competitive ‎bidding when part of a power purchase agreement or a net metering agreement in a program ‎organized and administered under this section; (iii) any agency, executive office, department, ‎board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, including the executive, ‎legislative and judicial branches of the commonwealth, may, on behalf of the commonwealth, ‎dispose of real property, by lease, easement or license, which is part of a power purchase ‎agreement or net metering agreement in a program organized and administered under this ‎section, including, but not limited to, construction of renewable energy projects on state ‎property; and (iv) any renewable energy, energy efficiency, decarbonization or climatetech ‎project which is part of a program organized and administered under this section and considered ‎to be public construction shall be subject to sections 26 to 27D, inclusive, of chapter 149.‎

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #59 to H4876

PowerOptions