DOA:......Bork, BB0099 - Focus on energy residential customer energy storage
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Focus on Energy residential customer energy storage
The bill includes residential energy storage system programs and programs for reducing energy demand in the statewide energy efficiency and renewable resources programs, known as Focus on Energy, that current law requires investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities to fund.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 196.374 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
196.374 (1) (d) “Energy efficiency program” means a program for reducing the usage or, reducing the demand, or increasing the efficiency of the usage of energy by a customer or member of an energy utility, municipal utility, or retail electric cooperative, including programs that promote the development or use of energy storage systems by residential customers. “Energy efficiency program” does not include load management.
Section 2. 196.374 (1) (dm) of the statutes is created to read:
196.374 (1) (dm) “Energy storage system” means a commercially available technology that uses mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes for absorbing energy and storing it for a period of time for use at a later time.
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