Relating to energy; requiring the public utilities commission to establish a community based wind energy development tariff to optimize local, regional and state rural agricultural resource economic development benefits from wind energy development and to facilitate widespread development of community based wind energy projects throughout the state, specifying certain tariff rate requirements and providing for application, requiring a preference for certain projects; authorizing community based project developers and public utilities to negotiate different rate and power purchase agreements; requiring the PUC to expedite the establishment of the tariff for use by a certain date
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