Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0628

Relating to energy; creating the demand efficiency program; defining certain
terms; specifying applicability to state public and municipal utilities and
certain generation and transmission cooperative electric associations, allowing
electric customer facilities owners to petition the commissioner of commerce for
energy savings requirements exemptions, requiring the commissioner to establish
annual energy savings goals, requiring utilities and associations to file energy
efficiency and conservation improvement plans, prescribing manner of filing and
service, providing for appeals, requiring independent audits, specifying
ownership of energy efficiency and conservation improvement, requiring the
commissioner to establish low income energy efficiency and conservation
programs, allowing grants, requiring the departments of administration and
commerce to maintain and revise sustainable building guidelines, establishing a
demand efficiency account within the next generation energy fund, allowing
utility recovery of expenses; authorizing the public utilities commission (PUC)
to establish criteria for decoupling of energy sales from revenues; making
certain conforming changes; repealing energy conservation improvement and
distributed energy resources provisions
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