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H3493 • 2025

An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage

An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage

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Sponsor
Garballey, Sean
Last action
2025-11-13
Official status
Accompanied a new draft, see H4744
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage

An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Cahill of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Cahill of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3493) of Sean Garballey and Daniel Cahill relative to peak energy storage.
  • Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-13 House

    Accompanied a new draft, see H4744

  2. 2025-10-27 House

    Reporting date extended to Wednesday, December 3, 2025

  3. 2025-07-18 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act increasing opportunities for peak energy storage
By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Cahill of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3493) of Sean Garballey and Daniel Cahill relative to peak energy storage. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3493

Section 3 of Chapter 25A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the definition of “Qualified RPS resources” and inserting in place thereof the following definition:-

“Qualified RPS resource”, a renewable energy generating source, as defined in subsection (c) or subsection (d) of section 11F, that has: (i) installed a qualified energy storage system at its facility; or (ii) commenced operation on or after January 1, 2019, provided, however, that a qualified RPS resource that commenced operation prior to January 1, 2019 shall be considered to have the commercial operation date of when the resource is co-located with a qualified energy storage system that commenced operation after January 1, 2019 and having a minimum nominal useful energy capacity of not less than 25 per cent of the nameplate power rating of the qualified RPS resource, or when the qualified RPS resource is contractually paired with a qualified energy storage system that commenced operation after January 1, 2019 and having a minimum nominal useful energy capacity of not less than 25 per cent of the nameplate power rating of the qualified RPS resource for 4 hours.

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