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EXPLANATION:
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 72, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, page 410, after line 33, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/ (PSC: Consideration of Utility Cost Savings)
With funds appropriated and authorized in the
current fiscal year the Public Service Commission shall:
(1)
require during its review of utility
integrated resource plans and related or affected dockets that
electric public utilities under the jurisdiction of the
Commission thoroughly consider a reasonable range of potential
future resources, including conventional power generation
resources, and renewable generation and demand-side management
resources whenever and to the extent that they are cost
effective; and
(2)
through any rules, decisions, and orders
issued or implemented in those dockets, require public utilities
to implement any reasonably achievable cost savings that are
also consistent with the obligation to provide safe and reliable
public utility service./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.