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Committee sends HB 759 to ITL after debate over 'community generator' definition, 5 MW threshold
Summary
A proposal to create a new 'community generator' category — allowing customer‑side generation up to 5 MW to serve community power aggregations or competitive suppliers — faced concerns about scale, net‑metering implications and wholesale market jurisdiction. The committee voted ITL on the bill.
Lawmakers examined House Bill 7‑59, which would create a statutory definition of "community generator" and place such projects within a framework distinct from smaller customer generators and municipal host projects. The definition in the introduced version allowed a community generator to be up to 5 megawatts at the point of interconnection — a scale that alarmed some committee members.
Chairman and members asked whether a community generator should be treated the same as a customer generator and whether projects at a 1–5 MW scale would effectively expand…
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