Legislation

§ 66-aa. Interconnection reforms. 1. (a) Within ninety days of the
effective date of this section the commission shall commence a
proceeding requiring every electric corporation to file a report with
the commission which shall include broken down costs of completed
upgrades to the electric distribution system required in order to
interconnect new distributed energy resources in the prior calendar year
categorized by upgrade type and equipment type annually by March
thirty-first of each year. Such reports shall be accompanied by
sufficiently detailed supporting documentation as determined by the
commission. Costs included in such reports shall be intergrated into
electric corporations' efforts to develop distribution upgrade cost
estimates.

(b) Electric corporations shall track actual costs of all distribution
upgrades they perform and disclose such costs to the department and to
the distributed energy resource company that paid for the upgrade.

2. The commission shall consider proposals to create greater
cost-certainty for distribution upgrades in order to limit the risk of
cost overruns, and the commission shall commence a proceeding to
determine whether any such proposal would increase cost certainty for
distribution upgrades, would not negatively impact the operation of the
distribution system, and would not increase costs to ratepayers. If the
commission so determines, and in response to evidence of cost overruns,
it shall issue an order with respect thereto to increase distribution
upgrade cost-certainty.