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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Andraca,
Haywood, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Baldeh, Bare, Clancy, Considine,
Emerson, Goyke, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Palmeri,
Ratcliff, Shelton, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining, cosponsored by
Senators Larson, L. Johnson, Hesselbein, Roys, Taylor, Agard, Carpenter,
Smith and Spreitzer. Referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities.
AB840,1,2
1An Act to amend 196.374 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes;
relating to: funding of the
2Focus on Energy program.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill makes changes to the funding of statewide energy efficiency and
renewable resources programs, known as Focus on Energy, that current law requires
investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities to fund. Under the bill, the Public
Service Commission must require those utilities to spend 2.4 percent of their annual
operating revenues derived from retail sales to fund Focus on Energy and related
programs. Under current law, the amount those utilities must spend is 1.2 percent
of their annual operating revenues derived from retail sales.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB840,1
3Section
1. 196.374 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB840,2,34
196.374
(3) (b) 2. The commission shall require each energy utility to spend
1.2 52.4 percent of its annual operating revenues derived from retail sales to fund the
6utility's programs under sub. (2) (b) 1., the utility's ordered programs, the utility's
1share of the statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource programs under
2sub. (2) (a) 1., and the utility's share, as determined by the commission under subd.
34., of the costs incurred by the commission in administering this section.