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SB 1331 Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs.

Introduced by: J. Chapman Petersen | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to assign administrative costs associated with the conservation and ratemaking efficiency plan to the portfolio as a whole. The measure requires the assignment of education and outreach costs associated with each program in a portfolio of programs to such program, and not to individual measures within a program, when such administrative, education, or outreach costs are not otherwise directly assignable. The measure also provides that a cost-effective conservation and energy efficiency program shall not include a program designed to convert propane customers to natural gas.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to assign administrative costs associated with the conservation and ratemaking efficiency plan to the portfolio as a whole. The measure also requires the assignment of education and outreach costs associated with each program in a portfolio of programs to such program and not to individual measures within a program, when such administrative, education, or outreach costs are not otherwise directly assignable.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to base its determination upon an evaluation of a portfolio of programs as a whole and not upon an evaluation of a program or measure on an individual basis.