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3/20/2023
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture to hear bills to promote solar while protecting forests
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STATE HOUSE – The Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture is scheduled to meet Wednesday, March 22, at 5 p.m. in the Senate Lounge on the second floor of the State House. The committee will hear the following bills:
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2023-S 0504 — This bill, introduced by Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture Chairwoman Alana DiMario (D-Dist. 36, Narragansett, North Kingstown, New Shoreham), establishes the renewable ready program, which is designed to promote responsible siting and development of renewable energy on certain enumerated sites such as formerly contaminated sites. Projects would be funded through the infrastructure bank.
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2023-S 0684 — This bill, introduced by Senator DiMario, would provide that any net metering resource owned or operated by a renewable energy developer be treated as an eligible net metering system provided it is not in a core forest.
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2023-S 0503 — This bill, introduced by Sen. Dawn Euer (D-Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown), would create the “Department of Energy Transformation Planning” chapter within the division of public utilities to implement long-term distribution system planning.
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2023-S 0506 — This bill, introduced by Sen. Bridget Valverde (D-Dist. 35, East Greenwich, North Kingstown, South Kingstown), would prohibit utility companies from limiting eligibility of net metering sites based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed to be credited to consumers. It would also amend the definition of excess renewable net-metering credit.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on channels 15 and 61 for high definition by Cox Communications subscribers, channel 15 for i3Broadband (formerly Full Channel) viewers and channel 34 for Verizon subscribers. Livestreaming is available at https://www.rilegislature.gov/CapTV/Pages/default.aspx.
For more information, contact:
Fil Eden, Publicist
State House Room 20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.1886
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