California
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A.B. 77
S.B. 72
S.B. 84
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Pending
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Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from authorizing recovery from ratepayers of any expense for research and development projects that are not for purposes of cyber security and grid integration and would limit total funding for research and development projects for the purposes of cyber security and grid integration from exceeding $35 million.
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A.B. 1274
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Pending
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Prohibits the sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to any third party a customer's electrical or natural gas usage without customer consent and stating to whom the disclosure will be made and the use of the data. Requires the entities involved to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect the data. Prohibits an incentive or discount to the customer for accessing the data without prior customer consent.
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Hawaii
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H.B. 94
S.B. 379
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Pending-Carryover
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Establishes a virtual net metering pilot program for renewable energy projects to be proportionally allocated between utilities and provides the opportunity for the commission to revise the bill credit mechanism for renewable energy credits.
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H.B. 728
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Pending-Carryover
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Requires utilities to provide group net metering to eligible customer-generators. Includes virtual net metering as a type of group net metering.
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Iowa
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H.B. 465
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Pending-Carryover
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Provides that a public utility shall not install a smart meter at a customer's residence or place of business without first providing the customer the opportunity to consent to the installation or to refuse such consent. The utility will offer to remove a smart meter free of charge if it was installed without customer consent.
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Massachusetts
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H.B. 792
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Pending
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Assembles the RePower Massachusetts Emergency Task Force to make recommendations to the Secretary and the legislature for meeting the target of 100% emission reductions by Jan. 1, 2020. The Task Force will evaluate issues including amendments to participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, amendments to the renewable energy portfolio standard, options for phasing out the use of alternative renewable energy sources that have positive net greenhouse gas emissions by Jan. 1, 2022, amendments to reinstate authority to the executive that was removed during utility deregulation, wind-siting reform, creating a state or regional mechanism to price carbon, smart grid implementation, and deep energy efficiency investments.
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H.B. 2926
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Pending
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Relates to utility meters and the rights of utility ratepayers. Provides that utilities provide ratepayers a choice regarding the type of meter installed and operated and requires utilities to obtain consent to install a wireless smart meter. Provides ratepayers with the right to request the removal of currently installed smart meters. Prohibits a utility from shutting off service to ratepayer based on amount of utility usage or the based on ratepayer having a wireless smart meter. Prohibits utility from imposing disincentives for not installing wireless smart meters.
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S.B. 1607
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Pending
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Assembles the RePower Massachusetts Emergency Task Force to make recommendations to the Secretary and the legislature for meeting the target of 100% emission reductions by Jan. 1, 2020. The Task Force will evaluate issues including siting reform, the challenge of intermittency & smart grid, battery storage and other solutions, accurate carbon pricing, the needs of low income and minority communities, the health, job creation, and other benefits of eliminating carbon emissions from electricity generation, the opportunity to eliminate further emissions from the transportation sector through electric vehicles, and through electric heating.
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Maine
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H.B. 76
H.B. 577
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Pending
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Prohibits a transmission and distribution utility from charging a customer a fee or a higher rate for declining the installation of a wireless smart meter or using a meter other than a wireless smart meter.
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S.B. 436
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Pending
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Implements the recommendations of the Maine Economic Growth Council regarding prosperity. Reduces energy costs by improving efficiency and expanding the portfolio of available and economically viable alternatives for residential, industrial and commercial customers. Supporting the goals of the Efficiency Maine Trust includes supporting time-of-day pricing options and smart meter technology.
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Michigan
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H.B. 4315
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Pending
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Provides for certain requirements and prohibitions in utilities' use of advanced meters. Utilities prohibited from refusing service to customers that refuse installation of advanced or smart meter. Utilities may not provide financial incentives to encourage adaptation of smart meters. Installation of advanced meter contingent upon customer consent.
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H.B. 4728
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Pending
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Prohibits certain use of data from advanced meters. Requires data from an advanced meter be encrypted so it cannot be intercepted by a wireless device not used by the utility. Provides for customer identity protection.
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Missouri
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S.B. 6
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Pending
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Allows telecommunications and broadband service providers to attach equipment to rural electric cooperatives' utility poles for smart grid or broadband purposes. Requires written agreement between the rural electric cooperative pole owner and the attaching entity.
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North Carolina
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H.B. 921
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Pending
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Provides that each electric utility in the state equip premises within the utility's service area with a smart meter to help its customers control their energy usage and costs.
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S.B. 76
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Pending
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Requires a comprehensive long-range state energy policy that addresses requirements in the short midterm and long term to achieve maximum effective management and use of present and future sources of energy. Such policy to include but not be limited to energy efficiency, renewable and alternative sources of energy, research and development into alternative energy technologies, and improvements to the State's energy infrastructure and energy economy, including, among others, smart grid development.
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S.B. 652
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Pending
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Provides a smart grid tax credit for research regarding modern electric grid technologies.
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Nebraska
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L.B. 557
L.B. 598
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Pending-Carryover
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Changes provisions relating to net metering and authorizes community solar gardens. A local distribution utility shall provide, at no additional cost to any customer-generator with a qualified facility, a metering system that is capable of measuring the flow of electricity in both directions and may be accomplished through use of a single, bidirectional electric revenue meter that has only a single register for billing purposes, a smart metering system, or another meter configuration that can easily be read by the customer-generator.
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New Hampshire
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S.B. 98
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To Governor
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Adds and modifies certain definitions related to group net energy metering, and authorizes utilities to charge customer-generators for system upgrades. Establishes a committee to study reimbursement rates for excess electricity generated by customer-generator groups.
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New Jersey
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A.B. 2966
A.B. 3025
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Pending
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Makes changes to solar renewable energy programs and purchase requirements, and directs the Board of Public Utilities to adopt standards for virtual net metering aggregation.
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A.B. 2988
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Pending
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Authorizes sale of certain property interests in public roads by local governments to connect certain electric generating facilities with customers and provides for net metering, virtual net metering and connections by public utility.
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A.B. 3816
S.B. 2429
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Pending
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Creates the Public Utility Reliability Investment Act and requires public utilities to file infrastructure improvement plans to increase service reliability with Board of Public Utilities. This includes the installation and use of smart grid infrastructure and smart meters that would have the ability to alert the electric utility when and where electric utility service is lost, find service disruption locations quickly, and notify a customer when to expect restoration of service. The plan shall allow a customer to opt out of receiving a smart meter.
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S.B. 827
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Pending
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Authorizes the sale of certain property interests in public roads by local governments to connect certain electric generating facilities with customers. Provides for net metering, virtual net metering and connections by the public utility.
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S.B. 1481
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Pending
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Directs the Board of Public Utilities to establish certain energy-conservation programs; and establishes programs to assist large commercial and industrial electric power customers with reduction of their energy usage through demand-side management programs offered by the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. the regional electric power transmission organization serving New Jersey. These demand-side management
programs would include the installation of various energy-saving devices such as hourly meters, real-time telemetry equipment and advanced meter technology.
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New York
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A.B. 126
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Pending
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Includes smart grids among considerations for any transportation infrastructure project.
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A.B. 178
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Pending
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Authorizes tenants to request the installation of smart or advanced meters.
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A.B. 1932
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Pending
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Enacts the "New York grid modernization act" to address the aging infrastructure, establishes the grid modernization program, and creates the smart grid advisory council. Allows a customer to opt out of receiving a smart meter.
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A.B. 6065
S.B. 3217
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Pending
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Authorizes virtual net energy metering and provides for the ownership and operation of energy generating equipment by municipalities and groups of farmers and businesses for their joint benefit. Provides for the net energy metering of the electricity used by the members of such entities.
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A.B. 6508
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Pending
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Establishes a smart grid system.
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A.B. 7799
S.B. 3379
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Pending
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Provides consumers the option to elect not to use smart meters and provides that the commission shall not charge a fee to consumers making such election.
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A.B. 8082
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Pending
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Provides residential electric customers with an option for greater control of the cost of such service by the installation of real time smart meters; and establishes sales, rental and service providers to be certified by the public service commission.
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S.B. 369
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Pending
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Authorizes tenants to request the installation of smart or advanced meters.
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S.B. 1642
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Pending
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Provides residential electric customers with an option for greater control of the cost of such service by the installation of real time smart meters; and establishes sales, rental and service providers to be certified by the public service commission.
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S.B. 3206
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Pending
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Amends the Public Authorities Law and relates to emerging technology industrial classifications for clean environment and energy technologies. Includes smart grid as energy efficiency measure.
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S.B. 4722
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Pending
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Establishes provisions for the net energy metering of neighborhood electricity usage.
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Pennsylvania
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H.B. 899
S.B. 816
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Pending
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Provides for smart meter technology and time of use rates. Electric distribution companies may file a smart meter technology procurement and installation plan with the commission for approval. Provides for cost recovery of smart meter technology related costs. Meter installation requires customer consent.
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H.B. 902
S.B. 818
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Pending
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Allows customers to opt out of receiving smart meter technology by notifying, in writing, the electric distribution company. The electric distribution company shall provide an opt-out form to consumers, upon request, and may provide a method for consumers to opt out electronically through the electric distribution company's Internet website. The commission shall create and regulate a surcharge for consumers who elect to opt out of receiving smart meter technology under this subparagraph.
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H.B. 906
S.B. 817
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Pending
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Electric distribution companies shall, with customer consent, make available direct meter access and electronic access to customer meter data to third parties, including electric generation suppliers and providers of conservation and load management services and government agencies.
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Rhode Island
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H.B. 5027
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Pending
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Would allow consumers the right to decline the installation of a wireless smart meter and substitute a wired smart meter, or to completely decline the installation of any smart meter technology.
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Tennessee
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H.B.373
S.B. 283
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Pending-Carryover
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Establishes standards for electric and natural gas utilities for smart meter gateway devices.
No electric or natural gas utility that sells or provides electricity or natural gas shall install a smart meter gateway device on or in a customer's home, business, facility, or structure without the customer's written and signed consent, regulate or restrict the amount of electricity or natural gas a customer uses, discontinue service to a customer when the customer declines to install or use a smart meter gateway device, charge a customer any fees for not installing or using a smart meter gateway device, obtain data from a customer's smart meter gateway device more than once per month, unless otherwise requested by the customer, or share any data from a customer's smart meter gateway device with any person or entity other than the customer's electric utility or natural gas utility.
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Vermont
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H.B. 402
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Pending-Carryover
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Relates to a privacy policy regarding smart meters, requiring customer detail to be treated as confidential. Requires company to develop measures to prevent unintended disclosure of information, and requires customer’s written consent before smart meter installation.
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S.B. 62
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Pending-Carryover
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Proposes to create additional notice and reporting requirements under Vermont's smart meter law. Allows customer to choose a wired smart meter, at no additional charge. Requires written customer consent for wireless smart meter communication.
Requires Commissioner of Public Service to report on smart meter related savings, breeches to company’s cyber-security infrastructure, the number of customers that have chosen not to have wireless smart meters, and the number of smart meter related complaints.
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Washington
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S.B. 5555
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Pending -Carryover
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Enacts the Washington State Renewable Energy Space Heating Act. Includes smart grid or smart metering technology in definition of innovative energy technology.
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