| CT | HB05440 | Intro 25% | To require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to use the greenhouse gases, regulated emissions, and energy use in technologies, or "GREET", model in measuring lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05232 | Intro 25% | To (1) establish a uniform capacity tax on solar panels, (2) extend community benefit agreement requirements to more renewable energy projects, (3) study community solar, (4) require expedited permitting for solar canopies, (5) require the Department... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05361 | Intro 25% | To (1) revise the Connecticut Siting Council approval process for certain renewable energy projects, and (2) require the council to follow conditions imposed by a municipality for certain projects near an existing facility with a capacity greater tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00301 | Intro 25% | To (1) update state energy and water efficiency standards for appliances and other equipment, and (2) expand the Housing Environmental Improvement Revolving Loan and Grant Fund to include a grant program and adjust the bonding authorization for this ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00297 | Intro 25% | To (1) mandate procedures that residential solar photovoltaic systems providers and agents of such providers must follow when conducting residential solar photovoltaic system solicitations, and (2) establish a task force to study policies to improve ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05356 | Intro 25% | To (1) redefine "Class I renewable energy source" to include certain linear generators, and (2) indefinitely extend the current renewable energy portfolio standard for Class III sources. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00299 | Intro 25% | To require the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to evaluate the impact of large data centers on grid reliability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05358 | Intro 25% | To study the feasibility of a pilot program for community geothermal. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05406 | Intro 25% | To create a task force to study transmission and grid enhancing technologies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05441 | Intro 25% | To permit utility shutoffs for customers who have the resources to pay their utility bills but currently cannot have their service terminated due to illness. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05444 | Intro 25% | To facilitate the consideration of cost-saving technology by evaluating and testing the technologies at state agencies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00382 | Intro 25% | To allow the state to contract for energy from run-of-the-river hydropower or offshore wind facilities for up to thirty years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05446 | Intro 25% | To (1) extend the gross earnings tax on cable and satellite television companies to communications services providers, (2) change the method of funding community access television operations, the Public, Educational and Governmental Programming and E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00383 | Intro 25% | To establish a mitigation fund to make payments to individuals or entities harmed by adverse impacts to fisheries and wildlife from offshore wind power facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00385 | Intro 25% | To (1) permit the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to coordinate with other New England states to procure generation resources from a nuclear power generating facility for ten years following the end of existing agreements with a n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | SB00384 | Intro 25% | To change the composition and duties of the Low-Income Energy Advisory Board and rename it the Low-Income Energy and Water Advisory Board. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office |
| CT | HB05439 | Intro 25% | To establish a target of deploying three hundred ten thousand heat pumps in the state by 2030. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05443 | Intro 25% | To guarantee public access to the data needed to set informed climate targets and accurately monitor progress against such targets. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05442 | Intro 25% | To require the use of federal funds available under the Inflation Reduction Act to expand existing energy storage battery programs and to require the Office of Policy and Management to consider potential changes to how energy storage batteries are ta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05445 | Intro 25% | To require the chairperson of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to report to the General Assembly on the status of its work concerning cost-sharing of new electric grid interconnection points among multiple renewable project developers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05438 | Intro 25% | To (1) make appropriations to energy efficiency programs identified in the Conservation and Load Management Plan, and (2) study the current structure and effectiveness of energy efficiency funding in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05357 | Intro 25% | To study the expansion of nuclear power at the location of an existing nuclear power generating facility. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05360 | Intro 25% | To establish a municipal electric aggregation program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05359 | Intro 25% | To require members and staff of the Connecticut Siting Council to have expertise concerning electric transmission infrastructure. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | SB00298 | Intro 25% | To study combining the deployment of energy storage batteries with new residential solar installations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | SB00300 | Intro 25% | To (1) study expanding natural gas capacity in the state, and (2) adjust the Renewable Portfolio Standard by redefining "Class I renewable energy source" to include all electricity derived from hydropower and nuclear power. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |
| CT | HB05231 | Intro 25% | To (1) make revisions to the state's renewable energy programs, including suspending the caps and clarifying rules for state, agricultural and municipal customers, and (2) require the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to study such programs and p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To Joint Energy and Technology Committee |