Connecticut 2025 Regular Session Status: In Committee

SB 1353 — AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSIDIES FOR NEW ELECTRICITY DEMAND.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No.
General Assembly Raised Bill No.
1353 January Session, 2025 AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSIDIES FOR NEW ELECTRICITY DEMAND.
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5140 Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY Introduced by:
(ET) AN ACT CONCERNING SUBSIDIES FOR NEW ELECTRICITY DEMAND.
Subsection (a) of section 32-286 of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing is substituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
Section 16-11 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025):
(a) As used in this section:
(a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, so far as is practicable, keep fully informed as to the condition of the plant, equipment and manner of operation of all public service companies and persons involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, in respect to their adequacy and suitability to accomplish the duties imposed upon such companies by law and in respect to their relation to the safety of the public and of the employees of such companies or persons.
(1) "Colocation tenant" means a person that contracts with the owner or operator of a qualified data center to use or occupy all or part of a qualified data center for a period of at least two years;
The authority may order such reasonable improvements,repairsoralterationsinsuchplantorequipment,orsuch changes in the manner of operation, as may be reasonably necessary in the public interest.
(2) "Eligible qualified data center costs" means expenditures made on or after July 1, 2021, for the development, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, repair or operation of a facility to be used as a qualified data center, including the cost of land, buildings, site improvements, modular data centers, lease payments, site characterization and assessment, engineering services, design services and data center equipment acquisition and permitting related to such data center equipment acquisitions.
(b) The general purposes of this section and sections 16-19, 16-25, 16- 43 and 16-47 are to assure to the state of Connecticut its full powers to LCO No.
"Eligible qualified data center costs" does not include expenditures made in connection with real or personal property that is located outside the boundaries of the facility to be used LCO 1 of 4 Substitute Bill No.
5140 1 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 regulate its public service companies, to increase the powers of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and to promote local control ofthe public service companies of this state, and said sections shall be so construed as to effectuate these purposes.
1353 as a qualified data center;
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or section 16-244i, the authority shall not establish any program that requires, or provides incentives for, the installation of any electric vehicle charging station.
(3) "Enterprise information technology equipment" means:
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(A) Hardware that support computing, networking or data storage functions, including servers and routers;
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(B) Networking systems equipment that support computing, networking or data storage functions and have an industry designation as equipment within the enterprise class or data center class of networking systems;
Subsection (b) of section 10-291 of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
and (C) Generators and other equipment used to ensure an uninterrupted power supply for the hardware and networking systems equipment under subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision;
(b) The Department of Administrative Services shall not approve a school building project plan or site, as applicable, if:
(4) "Facility" means one or more contiguous tracts of land in the state and any structure and personal property contained on such land;
(1) The site is in an area of moderate or high radon potential, as indicated in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Radon Potential Map, or similar subsequent publications, except where the school building project plan incorporates construction techniques to mitigate radon levels in the air of the facility;
(5) "Operator" means a person that contracts with the owner of a qualified data center to operate such qualified data center;
(2) The plans incorporate new roof construction or total replacement ofanexisting roofand do not providefor thefollowing:(A)A minimum roof pitch that conforms with the requirements of the State Building Code, (B) a minimum twenty-year unlimited manufacturer's guarantee for water tightness covering material and workmanship on the entire roofingsystem,(C)theinclusionofvaporretarders,insulation,bitumen, felts, membranes, flashings, metals, decks and any other feature required by the roof design, and (D) that all manufacturer's materials to be used in the roofing system are specified to meet the latest standards for individual components of the roofing systems of the American Society for Testing and Materials;
(6) "Owner" means a person that holds a leasehold estate in excess of fifty years or a fee title to a facility;
(3) In the case of a major alteration, renovation or extension of a building to be used for public school purposes, the plans do not LCO No.
(7) "Person" means an individual, an estate, a trust, a receiver, a cooperative association,a corporation,acompany,afirm, apartnership, a limited partnership, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership or a joint venture;
5140 2 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 incorporate the guidelines set forth in the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association's publication entitled "Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for Occupied Buildings Under Construction" or similar subsequent publications;
(8) "Qualified data center" means a facility that is developed, acquired, constructed, rehabilitated, renovated, repaired or operated, to house a group of networked computer servers in one physical location or multiple contiguous locations to centralize the storage, management and dissemination of data and information pertaining to a particular business or classification or body of knowledge.
(4) In the case of a new construction, extension, renovation or replacement, the plans do not provide that the building maintenance staff responsible for such facility are trained in or are receiving training in, or that the applicant plans to provide training in, the appropriate areas of plant operations including, but not limited to, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems pursuant to section 10-231e, with specific training relative to indoor air quality;
"Qualified data center" does not include any such facility that receives electricity from an electric supplier located on the customer-side of such facility's electric LCO 2 of 4 Substitute Bill No.
(5) In the case of a project for new construction, extension, major alteration, renovation or replacement involving a school entrance for inclusion on any listing submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with section 10-283 on or after July 1, 2008, the plans do not provide for a security infrastructure for such entrance;
1353 meter unless such supplier increases its generation capacity in an amount that offsets all of such facility's electric usage;
(6) In the case of a project for new construction, extension, major alteration, renovation or replacement on any listing submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with section 10-283 on or after July 1, 2022, the plans do not provide for the installation of at least one water bottle filling station (A) per one hundred students of the projected enrollment for the school building, (B) on each new floor or wing of the school building, and (C) in any food service area of the school building;
(9) "Qualified data center equipment" means computer equipment, software and hardware purchased or leased for the processing, storage, retrieval or communication of data, including:
or [(7) In the case of a project for new construction of a school building on any listing submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with section 10-283 on or after July 1, 2023, the plans do not provide for the installation of level two electric vehicle charging stations, as defined in section 4b-77, in at least twenty per cent of the designated parking spaces for cars or light duty trucks at the school building;
(A) Computer servers, routers, connections, chassis, networking equipment, switches, racks, fiber optic and copper cables, trays, conduits and other enabling machinery, equipment and hardware, regardless of whether such personal property is affixed to or incorporated into real property;
or] [(8)] (7) In the case of a project for new construction of a school LCO No.
(B) Equipment used in the operation of computer equipment or software for the benefit of a qualified data center, including component parts, replacement parts and upgrades, regardless of whether the personal property is affixed to or incorporated into real property;
5140 3 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 building on any listing submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with section 10-283, on or after July 1, 2025, the plans do not provide for single-user toilet and bathing rooms that are identified as being available for use by all students and school personnel.
(C) Equipment necessary for the transformation, generation, distribution or management of electricity that is required to operate computer servers and related equipment, including substations, generators, uninterruptible energy equipment, supplies, conduits, fuel piping and storage, cabling, duct banks, switches, switchboards, batteries and testing equipment;
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(D) Equipment necessary to cool and maintain a controlled environmentfortheoperationofcomputer serversandotherequipment of a qualified data center, including chillers, mechanical equipment, refrigerant piping, fuel piping and storage, adiabatic and free cooling systems, cooling towers, water softeners, air handling units, indoor direct exchange units, fans, ducting and filters;
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(E) Water conservation systems, including equipment designed to collect, conserve and reuse water;
Subdivision (80) of section 12-81 of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025, and applicable to assessment years commencing on and after October 1, 2025):
(F) Conduit, ducting and fiber optic and copper cables located outside the qualified data center, that are directly related to connecting LCO 3 of 4 Substitute Bill No.
(80)[Level two electric vehiclecharging stations,as defined in section 4b-77, that are located on commercial or industrial properties, electric vehicle charging stations, as defined in section 16-19f, that are located on residential properties, and any refueling] Refueling equipment for fuel cell electric vehicles, as defined in section 16-19eee;
1353 one or more qualified data center locations;
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(G) Monitoring equipment and security systems;
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(H) Modular data centers and preassembled components of any item described in this subsection, including components used in the manufacturing of modular data centers;
Subdivision (3) of subsection (k) of section 16-243v of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025):
and (I) Any other personal property, exclusive of motor vehicles, that is essential to the operations of a qualified data center or that is acquired for incorporation into or used or consumed in the operation of the qualified data center;
(3) The third-party administrator shall be responsible for extending loans and administering the residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program to assist residential retail end use customers in funding heating furnace or boiler equipment replacements and propane fuel tank purchases that meet all of the program requirements.
and (10) "Qualified investment" means the aggregate, nonduplicative eligible qualified data center costs expended by an owner, operator and colocation tenant of a qualified data center.
(A) For heating furnace or boiler equipment replacements, the program requirements shall include, but not be limited to, (i) the total projected direct cost savings to the eligible residential retail end use customer resulting from the heating furnace or boiler replacement, calculated on an annual basis commencing from the month that the replacement furnace or boiler is projected to be in service, shall be greater than the total cost of the replacement funds over the term of the program in order to qualify for the program, (ii) the eligible customer shall pay a contribution of not less than ten per cent of the total cost of the replacement or conversion of the heating furnace or LCO No.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
5140 4 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 boiler and any additional amounts that are required in order to meet the programrequirements,(iii)eligiblecustomersshallhave sixconsecutive months of timely utility payments and shall not have any past due balance owed to any electric distribution company or gas company, (iv) the term of the repayment of the replacement funds shall be the lesser of (I) the simple payback period of the replacement funds plus two years, or (II) ten years, and (v) the replacement furnace or boiler shall meet or exceed federal Energy Star standards, provided such replacement is not a heat pump.
Section 1 October 1, 2025 32-286(a) ET Joint Favorable Subst.
(B) For propane fuel tank purchases, theprogramrequirementsshall include, but not belimitedto,(i)eligible customers shall have six consecutive months of timely utility payments and shall not have any past due balance owed to any electric distribution company, propane seller or gas company, (ii) the term of the repayment of the replacement funds shall be not longer than ten years, and (iii) the loan recipient shall have such propane tank inspected on an annual basis and forward a certificate of inspection to the third- party administrator.
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In the event that such propane tank is found to need repair as a result of such inspection, any person performing such inspection shall inform the homeowner and the applicable local fire marshal.
If the requisite repair is not made in a timely fashion or as otherwise recommended or ordered by the local fire marshal, said fire marshal shall render such propane tank inoperable.
Eligible residential retail end use customers may apply to the third-party administrator for participation in the program.
The third-party administrator shall screen each applicant to ensure that the applicant meets the eligibility requirements and such program requirements prior to accepting the customer into the program.
The third-party administrator shall create awareness of the propane fuel tank purchase provisions of the program by the general public and, in particular, by residential propane purchasers.
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Section 16-244dd of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025):
Notwithstanding the provisions of this title and title 16a, the Public LCO No.
5140 5 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 Utilities Regulatory Authority may select the Connecticut Green Bank, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the electric distribution companies, as defined in section 16-1, a third party that the authority deems appropriate or any combination thereof to implement the non-residential renewable energy program established pursuant to section 16-244z, the residential renewable energy program established pursuant to said section [,] or the shared clean energy facility program established pursuant to said section.
[, the light-duty electric vehicle charging program established by the authority in a proceeding or a medium-duty to heavy-duty electric vehicle charging program established by the authority in a proceeding.] Sec.
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Subsection (a) of section 16a-46m of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
(a) Not later than September 1, 2021, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall, using available federal or other funds, establishanenergy efficiency retrofit grantprogram.TheCommissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may receive funds from the federal government, corporations, associations or individuals to fund the grant program.
Such program shall award grants to fund the installation of energy efficient upgrades to (1) affordable housing, as defined in section 8-39a, including, but not limited to, property of a housing authority, as defined in section 8-39, or (2) other dwelling units owned by a landlord, as defined in section 47a-1, at the discretion of the commissioner.
Such upgrades shall include energy efficiency and weatherization measures and may include, but need not be limited to, the installation of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, energy storage systems located on the customer's premises [, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, heat pumps] and balanced ventilation, and the mitigationofhealth andsafety hazardsincluding,but not limitedto, gas leaks, mold, vermiculite and asbestos, lead and radon,to the extent such hazards impede the installation of energy efficiency upgrades and weatherization measures.
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Subsection (c) of section 22a-20a of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
(c) Any municipality, owner or developer may enter into a community environmental benefit agreement in connection with an affecting facility.
For any application filed on or after November 1, 2020, for such an affecting facility that:
(1) Requires a certificate under chapter 277a, or (2) constitutes a new or expanded permit, except for a minor modification or improvement of an existing permit for such facility, or siting approval from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection or the Connecticut Siting Council involving an affecting facility, and that is proposed to be located in an environmental justice community or the proposed expansion of an affecting facility to be located in such a community, the applicant shall enter into such an agreement with the municipality if there are five or more affecting facilities in such municipality at the time such application is filed.
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall not issue a notice of tentative determination regarding a new or modified permit unless the applicant has submitted a copy of the executed agreement with the municipality.
Mitigation may include both on-site and off-site improvements, activities and programs, including, but not limited to:
Funding for activities such as environmental education, diesel pollution reduction, [electric vehicle charging infrastructure construction,] establishment of a wellness clinic, ongoing asthma screening, provision of air monitoring performed by a credentialed environmental professional, performance of an ongoing traffic study, watercourse monitoring, constructionofbiking facilities and multi-use trails,staffing for parks, urban forestry, support for community gardens or any other negotiated benefit to the environment in the environmental justice community.
Prior to negotiating the terms of a community environmental benefit agreement, the municipality shall provide a reasonable and public opportunity for residents of the potentially affected environmental justice community to be heard concerning the LCO No.
5140 7 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 requirements of or need for, and terms of, such agreement.
Any mitigation contained in such an agreement shall have a nexus to the impacts caused by the proposed facility and shall be proportional to such impacts.
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Subsection (d) of section 22a-201d of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
(d) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish and administer a grant program for the purpose of providing matching funds necessary for municipalities, school districts and school bus operators to submit federal grant applications in order to maximize federal funding for the purchase or lease of zero-emission school buses.
[andelectricvehicle chargingor fueling infrastructure.]Applicationsfor suchgrantsshallbefiledwiththecommissioneratsuchtimeandinsuch manner as the commissioner prescribes.
The commissioner shall give preference to applications concerning the purchase or lease of a zero- emission school bus that will be operated primarily in an environmental justice community.
The commissioner shall determine the amount a municipality, school district or school bus operator shall be required to provide to match such grant.
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Subsection (a) of section 16a-40l of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
(a) On or before October 1, 2011, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish a residential heating equipment financing program.
Such program shall allow residential customers to finance, through on-bill financing or other mechanism, the installation of energy efficient natural gas or heating oil burners, boilers and furnaces [or ductless heat pumps] to replace (1) burners, boilers and furnaces that are not less than seven years old with an efficiency rating of not more than seventy-five per cent, or (2) electric heating systems.
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5140 8 of 11 Raised Bill No.1353 Eligible fuel oil furnaces shall have an efficiency rating of not less than eighty-six per cent.
An eligible fuel oil burner shall have an efficiency rating of not less than eighty-six per cent with temperature reset controls.
An eligible natural gas boiler shall have an annual fuel utilization efficiency rating of not less than ninety per cent and an eligible natural gas furnace shall have an annual fuel utilization efficiency rating of not less than ninety-five per cent.
To participate in the program established pursuant to this subsection, a customer shall first have a home energy audit, the cost of which may be financed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
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Subsection (e) of section 22a-200c of the general statutes is repealed andthefollowing issubstituted inlieuthereof(EffectiveOctober 1, 2025):
(e) Beginning with the first auction occurring on or after January 1, 2023, and notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and subdivision (6) of subsection (f) of section 22a-174-31 of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies, auction proceeds annually calculated and allocated in accordance with subdivision (6) of subsection (f) of section 22a-174-31 of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies to the Connecticut Green Bank may be utilized by the Connecticut Green Bank,inconsultationwith theDepartment ofEnergy and Environmental Protection, for clean energy resources that do not emit greenhouse gas emissions, provided that any proceeds calculated and allocated to the Connecticut Green Bank in excess of five million two hundred thousand dollarsinany fiscal year shallbe divertedforthe fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and each fiscal year thereafter, to the department to provide funding for [the Connecticut Hydrogen and Electric Automobile Purchase Rebate program established pursuant to section 22a-202 and other] programs established to support the department's engagement with environmental justice communities.
For the purposes of this subsection, "clean energy" has the same meaning as provided in section 16-245n and "environmental justice community" has the same meaning as provided in section 22a-20a, as amended by this LCO No.
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Section 22a-201e of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025):
On and after January 1, 2024, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioners of Motor Vehicles, Transportation and Education, may establish, within available funding, a voucher program to support the [(1)] deployment of any vehicle that is equipped with zero-emission technology, including, but not limited to, battery electric and fuel cell systems, and classified as a Class 2b vehicle or Class 3 through Class 8 vehicles, as such terms are defined in 49 CFR 523.2, as amended from time to time, or a medium duty passenger vehicle, as defined in 49 CFR 523.2, as amended from time to time, when sold for use by a commercial or institutional fleet.
[, and (2) installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.]Applicationsfor thevoucher programshall befiled with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection at such time and in such manner as the commissioner prescribes.
In awarding any such voucher, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall consider the amount of funding available and set aside forty per cent of such funding to be used toward maximizing air pollution reductions in environmental justice communities, as defined in subsection (a) of section 22a-20a.
Such vouchers shall not be awarded for vehicle classes where there is no commercially available zero- emission technology.
[or for vehicles that are eligible for a rebate or voucher under the Connecticut Hydrogen and Electric Automobile Purchase Rebate program established pursuant to section 22a-202.] Sec.
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Section 4b-77 of the general statutes is repealed.
(Effective October 1, 2025) This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2025 16-11 LCO No.
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2 October 1, 2025 10-291(b) Sec.
3 October 1, 2025, and 12-81(80) applicable to assessment years commencing on and after October 1, 2025 Sec.
4 October 1, 2025 16-243v(k)(3) Sec.
5 October 1, 2025 16-244dd Sec.
6 October 1, 2025 16a-46m(a) Sec.
7 October 1, 2025 22a-20a(c) Sec.
8 October 1, 2025 22a-201d(d) Sec.
9 October 1, 2025 16a-40l(a) Sec.
10 October 1, 2025 22a-200c(e) Sec.
11 October 1, 2025 22a-201e Sec.
12 October 1, 2025 Repealer section Statement of Purpose:
To eliminate certain requirements and incentives for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations and heat pumps.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets.
Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.] LCO No.
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