LRB-1598/P2
EHS:amn
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0378 - Focus on Energy electrification projects
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State government
Public utility regulation
Focus on Energy
Current law requires investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities to fund statewide energy efficiency and renewable resources programs, known as Focus on Energy. This bill expands the definition of “energy efficiency program” to include a program that deploys electric technologies to meet energy needs currently served by other fuels in order to 1) reduce the usage of energy, increase the efficiency of usage of energy on a fuel-neutral basis, or reduce adverse environmental impacts, including carbon dioxide emissions; and 2) reduce costs for electric public utilities and retail electric cooperatives or their customers or members.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 196.374 (1) (d) of the statutes is renumbered 196.374 (1) (d) (intro.) and amended to read:
196.374 (1) (d) (intro.) “Energy efficiency program" means a program for reducing the usage or increasing the efficiency of the usage of energy by a customer or member of an energy utility, municipal utility, or retail electric cooperative. “Energy efficiency program" does not include load management. “
Energy efficiency program” includes a program that deploys electric technologies to meet energy needs currently served by other fuels in order to do all of the following:
Section
2. 196.374 (1) (d) 1. and 2. of the statutes are created to read:
196.374 (1) (d) 1. Reduce the usage of energy, increase the efficiency of usage of energy on a fuel-neutral basis, or reduce adverse environmental impacts, including carbon dioxide emissions.
2. Reduce costs for electric public utilities and retail electric cooperatives or their customers or members.
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