Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1303

E Relating to energy; expanding the definition of qualified hydroelectric
facility, modifying the definition of qualified wind energy conversion facility
and defining and including qualified on-farm biogas recovery facilities and
anaerobic digester systems under the renewable energy production incentive
program; providing for incentive payments to owners of qualified on-farm biogas
recovery facilities and of publicly owned hydropower facilities in need of
substantial refurbishment and repair; placing certain location restrictions on
wind energy conversion facilities constructed within the same calendar year and
owned by the same person for incentive payments eligibility purposes and
providing certain cure rights; providing a property tax exemption for personal
property used to generate electricity by generation or natural gas peaking
facilities placed into service after a certain date; providing an individual
income tax credit for a certain percentage of the amount spent for purchase and
installation of eligible energy systems and a certain dollar amount spent for
installed photovoltaic property capacity, limit, providing a carryover, defining
eligible equipment and photovoltaic property; exempting from the sales tax
certain energy efficient appliances and heating, cooling and energy generating
equipment; requiring the commissioner of revenue to provide information to
appliance retailers and the public on the sales tax exemption and on programs
for recycling of used appliances; appropriating money to the commissioner of
commerce for demonstration grants to local government units for the purchase and
installation in public buildings of distributed electric energy generating
equipment and requisite infrastructure using renewable sources or natural gas or
fuel as clean or cleaner than natural gas, for establishment of an energy
conservation revolving loan program to finance energy conservation capital
improvements and for a grant to a public utility to pilot the burying of
transmission lines located in close proximity to residences to evaluate the
public health effect of burying the lines, requiring cooperation of the
department of health and the staff of the public utilities commission (PUC) in
evaluating the project (ra, ja)