Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-22. Zonal and other incentive payments
In order to provide the electric distribution company with the flexibility to encourage distributed-generation projects to be located in designated geographical areas within its load zone where there is an identifiable system benefit, reliability benefit, or cost savings to the distribution system in that geographical area, the electric distribution company, in consultation with the board and the office, may propose to include an incentive-payment adder to the bid price of any winning bidder that proposes a distributed-generation project in the desired geographical area. The electric distribution company also may propose other incentive payments to achieve other technical or public policy objectives that provide identifiable benefits to customers. Any incentive-payment adders must be approved by the commission, and shall not be counted as part of the bid price when the bids are selected at an enrollment event.
History of Section.
P.L. 2014, ch. 200, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 216, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-22
- Board: shall mean the distributed-generation board as established pursuant to the provisions of § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
- Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
- Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
- Distributed-generation project: means a distinct installation of a distributed-generation facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
- Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2(a)(12), supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, but not including the Block Island Power Company or the Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
- Office: means the Rhode Island office of energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3