CHAPTER 76
S.P. 151 - L.D. 495
An Act to Amend the Small Power Production and Cogeneration Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3302, sub-§§1 and 2, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6, are amended to read:
1. Encourage development. Encourage the development of energy producing systems using renewable resources;, particularly abundant, indigenous, renewable resources or resources in close proximity to Maine; and
2. Promote existing use. Promote the more efficient use of existing energy systems particularly, through the cogeneration of power.; and
Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §3302, sub-§3 is enacted to read:
3. Meet goals. Require, whenever the interests of competition, consumers of electricity and economic development in this State are not adversely affected, that the commission ensure that the goals of this section will be met following the restructuring of the electric utility industry by:
A. Proposing market rules and transmission pricing policies and practices at the regional and federal levels that encourage the generation and sale of electricity from the State's renewable power producers and cogenerators;
B. Opposing market rules and proposed transmission pricing policies and practices that place the State's renewable power producers and cogenerators at a competitive disadvantage compared with nonrenewable power generators; and
C. Implementing the State's electric industry restructuring laws and other provisions of this Title in a manner that promotes generation of electricity from the State's indigenous renewable resources and cogeneration.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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