SS SCS SB 376 -- ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

This bill establishes the Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment
Act and changes the laws regarding the purchase of appliances
with state funds and the commissioners of the Missouri Public
Service Commission.

PURCHASE OF APPLIANCES WITH STATE FUNDS

Any appliance purchased with state funds must have earned the
Energy Star rating under the federally sponsored Energy Star
Program.  The Commissioner of the Office of Administration is
allowed to exempt an appliance from the requirement if the cost
of compliance is expected to exceed the projected energy cost
savings.

MISSOURI PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

The bill removes the requirement that commissioners of the
Missouri Public Service Commission reside within a 40-mile radius
of Jefferson City during their term of office.

MISSOURI ENERGY EFFICIENCY INVESTMENT ACT

The Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act is established
which requires the Missouri Public Service Commission to allow
electric corporations to implement and recover costs related to
commission-approved energy efficiency programs.  In its main
provisions, the bill:

(1)  Specifies that it will be the policy of the state to value
demand-side investments equal to traditional investments in
supply and delivery infrastructure and allows recovery of all
reasonable and prudent costs of delivering cost-effective
demand-side programs;

(2)  Requires the commission to allow electric corporations to
implement commission-approved demand-side programs with energy
efficiency goals.  The recovery of the costs of the program will
not be permitted unless the program is approved by the
commission, results in energy or demand savings, and is
beneficial to all customers in the customer class in which the
programs are proposed;

(3)  Allows the commission to reduce or exempt energy efficiency
costs for low-income customers;

(4)  Allows any customer using more than 2,500 kilowatts to seek
an exemption from the provisions of the act if the customer has a
comprehensive energy efficiency program and can demonstrate an
achievement of savings at least equal to those expected from
utility-provided programs;

(5)  Requires the commission to provide oversight and allows it
to adopt rules and procedures and to approve certain settlements
and tariff provisions to ensure that electric corporations
achieve the goals of the act;

(6)  Requires every electric corporation to submit an annual
report to the commission on its energy efficiency programs in the
previous year;

(7)  Requires all charges and fees associated with the energy
efficiency program to be listed separately on a customer's bill;

(8)  Specifies that a customer who receives any tax credit under
specified sections of law related to energy efficiency will not
be eligible to participate in any efficiency program offered by
an electric corporation if the program offers a monetary
incentive to the customer.  Any customer who falsifies
documentation related to an energy efficiency program will be
guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and

(9)  Requires the commission to develop rules for the public
disclosure of all recipients of monetary incentives through any
energy efficiency program offered by electric corporations under
this act.

The provisions regarding the purchase of appliances with state
funds will expire August 28, 2011.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated November 17, 2009 at 9:26 am