An Act To Facilitate the Marketing of Power Produced by Small Generators
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3210-A, sub-§4 is enacted to read:
4. Purchase by competitive electricity providers. In addition to its obligations under subsection 2, a transmission and distribution utility may administer on behalf of any participating generator the purchase and sale of electricity to a competitive electricity provider. In carrying out this function, a transmission and distribution utility may in its discretion aggregate the output of multiple participating generators for the purpose of obtaining the most favorable purchase price on the generators' behalf. The parties to any resulting sale must be the generators and the competitive electricity provider. The commission shall adopt rules and shall amend any existing rules necessary to implement the requirements of this subsection. Notwithstanding subsection 3, rules and amendments to rules adopted under this subsection are major substantive rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
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This bill allows a transmission and distribution utility to aggregate electric power from multiple small generators and administer on behalf of those generators the purchase and sale of electricity to a competitive electricity provider. The parties to any resulting sale must be the generators and the competitive electricity provider.