Electric utility service.
Summary
Provides that it is the continuing policy of the state that decisions concerning Indiana's electric generation resource mix, energy infrastructure, and electric service ratemaking constructs must take into account the following attributes of electric utility service: (1) Reliability. (2) Affordability. (3) Resiliency. (4) Stability. (5) Environmental sustainability. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to take each of these attributes into account when: (1) reviewing, and preparing a final director's report for, an integrated resource plan submitted by an electric utility; (2) acting upon a petition for the construction, purchase, or lease of an electric generation facility; and (3) reviewing whether the public convenience and necessity continues to require the completion of an electric generation facility under construction. Requires the IURC to commence before September 1, 2023, a comprehensive study to consider the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for investor-owned electricity suppliers. Sets forth certain topics that the IURC shall consider and evaluate in conducting the required study. Requires the IURC to include in its annual report that is due before October 1, 2025, a report containing the IURC's analysis and recommendations on the specified topics. Provides that the report must contain recommendations, supported by sufficient data and analysis from the IURC's study, with respect to the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for electricity suppliers, so as to enable the general assembly to fully evaluate the impact of performance based ratemaking on all classes of ratepayers, while considering the five attributes of electric utility service set forth as state policy in the bill. Amends the statute governing reliability adequacy metrics for certain electric utilities ("public utilities" under the statute) as follows: (1) Defines the terms: (A) "fall unforced capacity", or "fall UCAP"; and (B) "spring unforced capacity", or "spring UCAP"; for purposes of the prescribed reliability adequacy metrics. (2) Reduces to 15% the 30% limit (under current law) for a public utility's summer or winter unforced capacity (UCAP) that the public utility is authorized to acquire from capacity markets, for purposes of the reliability adequacy metrics included in a resource planning report (report) submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2023. (3) Provides that the reliability metrics included in a report submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2026, must include specified information concerning a public utility's ability to meet its spring UCAP and fall UCAP. (4) Provides that if, after reviewing a public utility's report, the IURC is not satisfied that the public utility can: (A) provide reliable electric service to its Indiana customers; or (B) either: (i) satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; or (ii) provide sufficient reason as to why it is unable to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; the IURC may conduct an investigation into the matter. (Current law does not require the IURC to consider whether the public utility can provide sufficient reason as to its inability to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill.) (5) Requires the IURC to include in its 2025 annual report its analysis regarding the appropriate percentage or portion of: (A) total spring UCAP; and (B) total fall UCAP; that public utilities should be authorized to acquire from capacity markets.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
Apr 2023
Signed into Law
Apr 2023
Introduced Jan 12, 2023
Signed Apr 20, 2023
Floor votes · Senate Mar 20, 2023
How they voted
46–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 48
Mar 20, 2023
D
Democratic10
90% Yea
R
Republican38
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Amendments
3
Apr 20, 2023
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Apr 17, 2023
Upper · Passed
Signed by the President of the Senate
upper
Apr 6, 2023
Upper · Passed
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
upper
Apr 6, 2023
Lower · Passed
Signed by the Speaker
lower
Mar 28, 2023
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 318: yeas 93, nays 2
lower
Mar 20, 2023
Upper · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 48, nays 0
upper
Mar 13, 2023
Upper · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
upper
Jan 30, 2023
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 37: yeas 96, nays 1
lower
Jan 26, 2023
Amended
Amendment #2 (Pierce) failed; Roll Call 34: yeas 30, nays 61
lower
Jan 26, 2023
Amended
Amendment #1 (Errington) failed; Roll Call 33: yeas 27, nays 64
lower
Jan 26, 2023
Amended
Amendment #3 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 32: yeas 28, nays 63
lower
Jan 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
lower
4 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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