House Study Bill 714

                                   HOUSE FILE       
                                   BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                        COMMERCE, REGULATION AND LABOR
                                        BILL BY CHAIRPERSON JENKINS)


    Passed House, Date                Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to electric power generation and the cogeneration
  2    pilot program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 15.269, subsection 2, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (a), Code
  1  3 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  4    (a)  Each cogeneration pilot project facility must involve
  1  5 two three hundred megawatts or less of electricity, in
  1  6 combination with one or more other cogeneration project
  1  7 facilities.
  1  8    Sec. 2.  Section 476.1, Code 2003, is amended by adding the
  1  9 following new unnumbered paragraph:
  1 10    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  This chapter shall not apply to
  1 11 an entity that directly or indirectly furnishes electricity
  1 12 produced by a cogeneration facility if such entity furnishes
  1 13 such electricity to no more than two users who are physically
  1 14 located within two miles of the cogeneration facility.
  1 15    Sec. 3.  Section 476.22, Code 2003, is amended to read as
  1 16 follows:
  1 17    476.22  DEFINITION.
  1 18    As used in sections 476.23 to 476.26, unless the context
  1 19 otherwise requires, "electric utility" includes a public
  1 20 utility furnishing electricity as defined in section 476.1 and
  1 21 a city utility as defined in section 390.1, but does not
  1 22 include an entity that directly or indirectly furnishes
  1 23 electricity produced by a cogeneration facility if such entity
  1 24 furnishes such electricity to no more than two users who are
  1 25 physically located within two miles of the cogeneration
  1 26 facility.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill relates to electric power generation facilities
  1 29 and the cogeneration pilot program.
  1 30    The bill relates to the cogeneration pilot program by
  1 31 increasing the maximum allowable megawatts of each
  1 32 cogeneration pilot project facility from 200 to 300.  The bill
  1 33 removes the applicability of Code chapter 476 regarding the
  1 34 regulation of public utilities to certain entities that
  1 35 furnish electricity produced by a cogeneration facility.  The
  2  1 bill specifies that the term "electric utility" shall not
  2  2 include certain entities that furnish electricity produced by
  2  3 a cogeneration facility.
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