State of Alaska
Fiscal Note
Bill Version: CSSB 152(L&C)
2024 Legislative Session
Fiscal Note Number: 1
(S) Publish Date: 4/19/2024
Identifier: SB152-DCCED-RCA-01-26-24 Department: Department of Commerce, Community and
Title: COMMUNITY ENERGY FACILITIES; NET Economic Development
METERING Appropriation: Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Sponsor: WIELECHOWSKI Allocation: Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Requester: (S) Labor & Commerce OMB Component Number: 2417
Expenditures/Revenues
Note: Amounts do not include inflation unless otherwise noted below. (Thousands of Dollars)
Included in
FY2025 Governor's
Appropriation FY2025 Out-Year Cost Estimates
Requested Request
OPERATING EXPENDITURES FY 2025 FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028 FY 2029 FY 2030
Personal Services
Travel
Services
Commodities
Capital Outlay
Grants & Benefits
Miscellaneous
Total Operating 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Fund Source (Operating Only)
None
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Positions
Full-time
Part-time
Temporary
Change in Revenues
None
Total 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Estimated SUPPLEMENTAL (FY2024) cost: 0.0 (separate supplemental appropriation required)
Estimated CAPITAL (FY2025) cost: 0.0 (separate capital appropriation required)
Does the bill create or modify a new fund or account? No
(Supplemental/Capital/New Fund - discuss reasons and fund source(s) in analysis section)
ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
Does the bill direct, or will the bill result in, regulation changes adopted by your agency? Yes
If yes, by what date are the regulations to be adopted, amended or repealed? 07/01/25
Why this fiscal note differs from previous version/comments:
Not applicable, initial version.
Prepared By: Robert A. Doyle, Chair Phone: (907)276-6222
Division: Regulatory Commission of Alaska Date: 01/26/2024
Approved By: Hannah Lager, Administrative Services Director Date: 01/26/24
Agency: Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Printed 4/18/2024 Page 1 of 2 Control Code: QfJVu
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FISCAL NOTE ANALYSIS
STATE OF ALASKA BILL NO. SB152
2024 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Analysis
This bill requires larger economically regulated electric utilities that use fossil fuel generation to make community energy
programs available to subscriber organizations that request interconnection. Covered electric utilities must submit a
community energy plan for Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) approval, with subscriptions limited to retail customers
or member-owners of the utility. Covered electric utilities must allow eligible community energy facilities to interconnect
with utility facilities under RCA-approved interconnection standards. This bill requires the RCA to approve community
energy plans that meets certain specified requirements and modify or disapprove community energy plans that do not
meet the requirements. This bill includes a requirement that the community energy plan must ensure that not less than 30
percent of subscribers are low- to-moderate-income households.
A covered electric utility may own community energy facilities but may not generate more than 30% of the total
generation from community energy facilities in the utility’s service area. The utility must calculate this percentage annually
and the RCA must take measures to bring non-compliant electric utilities into compliance with this requirement. This bill
allows the covered utility to charge subscribers all approved tariffed charges, however the utility may not charge fees for
standby, capacity, interconnection, or other net metering expenses. An electric utility may petition the RCA to change rate
designs and include appropriate rate classes for community energy facilities, with the RCA required to allow the change if
the utility can demonstrate an adverse impact to utility customers that do not participate in the community energy
program.
The RCA will also be required to address utility filings that (1) request an exemption of a utility’s system or a portion
thereof, (2) request approval of a community energy plan, (3) propose a change to utility’s rate design to include
appropriate rate classes for community energy facilities, and (4) report the percentage of utility-owned community energy
facilities – with the RCA required to take enforcement action should the utility exceed the 30 percent cap stated included
in the bill. The RCA may also be called upon to address any complaints regarding the utility’s failure to interconnect with a
community energy facility or bill/report to subscribers of a community energy facility in accordance with the requirements
of this legislation.
The RCA may by order modify or waive the new requirements of this bill under its own motion or upon application and a
showing of good cause and may by regulation adopt additional requirements for community energy facilities if deemed
necessary to protect public safety and system reliability.
Passage of this bill will require the RCA to amend or adopt regulations addressing community facility plans and
interconnection standards for interconnection of community energy facilities with utility facilities. The RCA may need to
adopt procedural requirements for processing utility filings and reports or complaints related to community energy plans
or facilities. This bill includes a transitional section that requires the RCA to adopt regulations and implement the
community energy plan/facility within one year of the effective date, superseding the RCA’s two-year statutorily allowed
deadline (from initiating petition filing or initiating order issuance) to adopt such regulations.
Currently the Regulatory Commission of Alaska anticipates fulfilling the requirements of this legislation within current
operational authority and so does not anticipate fiscal impact from this legislation.
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Statutes affected:
SB0152A, AM SB 152, introduced 05/15/2023: 42.05.725, 42.05.735, 42.05.733, 42.05.727, 42.05.729, 42.05.731
SB0152B, AM CSSB 152(L&C), introduced 04/19/2024: 42.05.725, 42.05.735, 42.05.727, 42.05.729, 42.05.731, 36.05.010
SB0152C, AM HCS CSSB 152(ENE), introduced 05/01/2024: 42.05.725, 42.05.735, 42.05.727, 42.05.729, 42.05.731, 36.05.010