ELECTRICITY AGGREGATION - S.B. 1277: FLOOR ANALYSIS
Senate Bill 1277 (as reported by the Committee of the Whole)
Sponsor: Senator Bill Schuette
Committee: Technology and Energy
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Public Service Commission enabling law to provide that aggregation could be used for the purchase of electricity and related services from an alternative electric supplier. Local units of government, public and private schools, universities, and community colleges could aggregate for the purpose of purchasing electricity for themselves or for customers within their boundaries with the written consent of each customer aggregated. Customers within a local unit of government would continue to have the right to choose their electricity supplier and would not be required to purchase electricity through the aggregator.
"Aggregation" would mean the combining of electric loads of multiple retail customers or a single customer with multiple sites to facilitate the provision of electric service to those customers.
The bill is tie-barred to Senate Bill 937.
Proposed MCL 360.10z - Legislative Analyst: S. Lowe
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no way to know how many electric customers and/or local governments would participate in "aggregation" or how much would ultimately be saved in electric costs. Therefore, no reasonable estimate of the fiscal impact is possible at this time.
Date Completed: 5-24-00 - Fiscal Analyst: J. Wortley
floor\sb1277 - Analysis available @ http://www.michiganlegislature.org
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.