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The Daily Bulletin: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 97 (2015-2016) 2015 APPROPRIATIONS ACT. Filed Feb 23 2015, AN ACT TO MAKE BASE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OP STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
House committee substitute makes various changes to the 1 st edition. We will not be including a summary of the
Appropriations Act. For the content of the bill, please follow the View NCGA Bill Details link. Further information on
the budget, including the committee report, can be found on the “News” section of the General Assembly’s website
at: http://www.ncleg.net/sessions/20 1 5/budget/20 1 5 /H97_Draft.html.
APPROP, GS 7A, GS 15A, GS 20, GS 44A, GS 62, GS 94,
Intro, by Dollar, Johnson, McGrady, Lambeth. GS 105, GS 105 A, GS 106, GS 130A, GS 13 ID, GS 13 IE,
GS 143, GS 150B, GS 166A
View summary Government, Budget/Appropriations
H 332 (2015-2016) ENERGY POLICY AMENDMENTS. Filed Mar 23 2015, AN ACT TO PROVIDE RECOVERY OF
CAPITAL RELATED COSTS INCURRED BY A NATURAL GAS UTILITY FOR CONSTRUCTING NATURAL GAS
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A LARGE MANUFACTURING EMPLOYER, AND TO .AMEND THE LAWS RELATED TO ENERGY
POLICY.
Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.
Amends the short and long titles.
Adds new Part II to the bill, Amendments to Energy Policy Updated REPS Requirements, making the following
changes to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) program in GS 62-133.8: (1)
capping REPS requirements to 6% of 2014 NC retail sales in 2015 and thereafter, (2) eliminating the authority of utilities
to charge account holders a higher annual fee in 2015 and thereafter to recover costs related to REPS implementation
(capped at 2012 amounts) (effective July 1, 2015), (3) allowing electric public utilities to meet 50% of the requirement
for reducing energy consumption through energy efficiency measures (was, 25%) (effective July 1, 2015).
Provides that the Utilities Commission can allow an electric power supplier to recover incremental costs it incurred
before July 1, 2015, in order to comply with REPS requirements that are amended or repealed in the act.
Amends GS 62-3(27a) concerning the definition for small power producer, providing that for the purposes of that
section renewable resources, in addition to including hydroelectric power, also means solar electric, solar thermal, wind,
geothermal, ocean current, wave energy resources, and biomass derived from agricultural waste, animal waste, wood
waste, spent pulping liquors, combustible residues, liquids, or gases not derived from fossil fuel, energy crops, or
landfill methane. Effective January 1,2017, applying to facilities that have applied for a certificate of public convenience
and necessity on or after that date.
Amends GS 62- 1 56(b)( 1 ) concerning tenns of contracts for power sales by small power producers to public utilities,
adding language that provides that the Utilities Commission must require public utilities to provide standard contracts to
