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PRINTER'S NO. 721
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
695
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY GILLESPIE, HICKERNELL, ROTHMAN, JAMES, ZIMMERMAN,
MILLARD AND NEILSON, MARCH 5, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 5, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further
providing for purposes and powers.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5607 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 5607. Purposes and powers.
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(h) Specific provisions for resource recovery facilities.--
(1) An electric distribution company shall purchase from
an authority that owns, leases or is a party to an agreement
whereby a third party operates a facility for generating
surplus electric power under subsection (a)(7) or (12), or
other similar resource recovery facility that is not owned,
operated or leased by the authority but which receives refuse
material from the authority, as authorized by subsection (a)
(7), or municipality, through an agreement effective as of
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January 1, 2017, or thereafter, all electrical energy
produced by the resource recovery facility that is not
consumed by the facility at the default service commodity
rate as determined by the electric distribution company for
sales to residential customers taking provider of last resort
or default service.
(2) The electric distribution company shall fully
recover the costs of the purchase and any reasonable related
costs from providers of last resort or default service
customers as part of the rate structure for such service.
(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to
impact a resource recovery facility's ability to fully
participate in capacity markets nor the remuneration
therefrom.
(4) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to
impact a resource recovery facility's ability to sell its
capacity separately.
(5) For purposes of this subsection, "default service
commodity rate" means the generation supply service rate as
provided in 66 Pa.C.S. § 2807(e)(7) (relating to duties of
electric distribution companies).
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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