SB-1041, As Passed Senate, March 27, 2008
January 22, 2008, Introduced by Senators RICHARDVILLE, BIRKHOLZ, PAPPAGEORGE, KAHN, BISHOP, SANBORN, ANDERSON, BASHAM, ALLEN, HARDIMAN, SWITALSKI, JANSEN and KUIPERS and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy and Public Utilities.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and
certain private utilities and other services affected with a public
interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy
suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned
utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of
this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe
and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public
utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by
law on the public service commission; to provide for the
continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and
proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit
certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify
residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law
for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to provide for a
restructuring of the manner in which energy is provided in this
state; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery
facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of
energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to
reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to
declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies
and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.10cc) by adding section 10dd.
Senate Bill No. 1041 as amended March 26, 2008
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 10dd. (1) After notice and hearing, the commission shall
issue orders requiring all electric suppliers in this state to
offer green energy programs to their customers.
(2) An electric supplier shall include on each customer's bill
the price differential for each kilowatt hour of electricity
purchased from the green energy program compared to the purchase of
nonrenewable electricity. An electric supplier shall inform each
customer on their bill that an income tax credit is available for
the purchase of green energy as provided in section 253 of the
income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.253.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Green energy programs" means programs that allow
customers to purchase electricity generated from renewable energy
sources.
(b) "Renewable energy sources" means <<a resource that naturally
replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame ultimately derived
from solar power, solar hot water, or wind power. A renewable energy
source comes from the sun or from thermal inertia of the ground and
minimizes the output of toxic material in the conversion of the energy.
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