Relating to energy; expanding the authority of the public utilities commission to develop financial incentives to encourage residential and small business customers to participate in on site electric generation to community based generation projects in remote locations cooperatively allocating energy generated to project owners; requiring the PUC under the renewable and high efficiency energy rate options to offer declining block pricing as an incentive for consumers to purchase large amounts of electricity generated from renewable energy sources; requiring public utilities to consider using community based generation projects to address certain transmission inadequacies; requiring reliability administrators to conduct interconnection studies at the request of community based generation project owners
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