Connecticut General Statutes 16-243i – Awards to retail end use electric customers and electric distribution companies re customer-side distributed resources
(a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, not later than January 1, 2006, establish a program to grant awards to retail end use customers of electric distribution companies to fund the capital costs of obtaining projects of customer-side distributed resources, as defined in section 16-1. Any project shall receive a one-time, nonrecurring award in an amount of not less than two hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars per kilowatt of capacity for such customer-side distributed resources, recoverable from federally mandated congestion charges, as defined in section 16-1. No such award may be made unless the projected reduction in federally mandated congestion charges attributed to the project for such distributed resources is greater than the amount of the award. The amount of an award shall depend on the impact that the customer-side distributed resources project has on reducing federally mandated congestion charges, as defined in section 16-1. Not later than October 1, 2005, the authority shall conduct a contested case proceeding, in accordance with chapter 54, to establish additional standards for the amount of such awards and additional criteria and the process for making such awards.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-243i
- Authority: means the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and "department" means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Customer-side distributed resources: means (A) the generation of electricity from a unit with a rating of not more than sixty-five megawatts on the premises of a retail end user within the transmission and distribution system including, but not limited to, fuel cells, photovoltaic systems or small wind turbines, or (B) a reduction in the demand for electricity on the premises of a retail end user in the distribution system through methods of conservation and load management, including, but not limited to, peak reduction systems and demand response systems. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- distribution company: means any person providing electric transmission or distribution services within the state, but does not include: (A) A private power producer, as defined in section 16-243b. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Federally mandated congestion charges: means any cost approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as part of New England Standard Market Design including, but not limited to, locational marginal pricing, locational installed capacity payments, any cost approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to reduce federally mandated congestion charges in accordance with section 7-233y, this section, sections 16-32f, 16-50i, 16-50k, 16-50x, 16-243i to 16-243q, inclusive, 16-244c, 16-245m, 16-245n and 16-245z, section 21 of public act 05-1 of the June special session. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
(b) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, not later than January 1, 2006, establish a program to grant to an electric distribution company a one-time, nonrecurring award to educate, assist and promote investments in customer-side distributed resources developed in such company’s service territory, which resources the authority determines will reduce federally mandated congestion charges, in accordance with the following: (1) On or before January 1, 2008, two hundred dollars per kilowatt of such resources, (2) on or before January 1, 2009, one hundred fifty dollars per kilowatt of such resources, (3) on or before January 1, 2010, one hundred dollars per kilowatt of such resources, and (4) fifty dollars per kilowatt of such resources thereafter. Payment of the award shall be made at the time each such resource becomes operational. The cost of the award shall be recoverable from federally mandated congestion charges. Revenues from such awards shall not be included in calculating the electric distribution company’s earnings for the purpose of determining whether its rates are just and reasonable under sections 16-19, 16-19a and 16-19e.