Electric utilities; renewable portfolio standard program, zero-carbon electricity, etc.

The bill header was updated to reflect that it is now an amendment proposed by the House Committee on Labor and Commerce, dated March 3, 2026, instead of the original Senate Committee version from February 12, 2026.

The text contains numerous line breaks and spacing adjustments, likely due to formatting differences between the Senate and House versions of the document.

The original Senate-specific metadata and date stamps were removed as they were replaced by the new House committee information.

Deleted a specific mandate requiring Phase II utilities to meet 1% of their RPS requirements using small-scale solar, wind, or anaerobic digestion resources, including specific provisions for low-income and school-adjacent projects.

Removed the detailed table listing specific annual percentage targets for the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) for both Phase I and Phase II utilities from 2021 through 2043.

Reformatted and slightly reworded the definition of 'Total electric energy' to clarify the exclusion of nuclear and zero-carbon facilities placed into service after July 1, 2030.

Changed the document header from 'Enrolled' to 'Offered for Consideration' and added substitute amendment markings, indicating the bill is in a legislative drafting stage rather than final approval.

The term 'accelerated renewable energy buyer' was changed to 'accelerated renewable clean energy buyer' throughout the text to better reflect the bill's focus on clean energy sources.

Exemptions for large industrial customers (over 100 megawatts) were updated to explicitly state that they are not allocated non-bypassable charges if they purchased electricity from a competitive provider before April 1, 2019 (for Phase II utilities) or February 1, 2019 (for Phase I utilities).

Specific megawatt targets for solar and wind generation construction were adjusted in the text, such as changing Phase II Utility targets from 16,100 megawatts to 5,000 megawatts for zero-carbon electricity and adjusting interim solar/wind procurement milestones.

The timeline for zero-carbon electricity deployment was clarified, with Phase I Utilities required to procure 1,600 megawatts and Phase II Utilities required to procure 5,000 megawatts between January 1, 2035, and December 31, 2045.

Formatting inconsistencies and markup artifacts from the legislative process were removed to produce a clean, final version of the statute.