By Mr. O'Leary, a petition (accompanied by bill,
Senate, No. 1970) of Robert A. O'Leary for legislation
relative to municipal renewable energy generation.
Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
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By Mr. O'Leary, a petition (accompanied by bill,
Senate, No. 1970) of Robert A. O'Leary for legislation
relative to municipal renewable energy generation.
Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a municipality may operate any renewable energy generating facility, sell any electricity generated from such facilities, and sell any other marketable products resulting from its generation of renewable energy at such facilities, including electronic certificates created to represent the “generation attributes” as such term is defined under 225 CMR 14.02 of each megawatt hour of energy generated by the renewable energy facilities.
Section 2.
For the purposes of this section, a renewable energy generating facility is one which generates electricity using any of the following: (i) solar photovoltaic or solar thermal electric energy; (ii) wind energy; (iii) ocean thermal, wave, or tidal energy.
