Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 164 §134 contains provisions for community choice aggregation in the state, adopting language from the enabling Utility Restructuring Act of 1997.
Illinois’ Power Agency Act established community choice aggregation in the state.
Established by 2002’s AB 117, California’s community choice aggregation program allows for communities to join together to purchase electricity on behalf of their community members.
California’s coop statute permits a group of adjacent customers in any area to establish their own generation and distribution system.
Harvard’s 2014 report, Massachusetts Microgrids: Overcoming Legal Obstacles, surveys the laws surrounding extending distribution systems and selling power to neighboring customers in Massachusetts.
New Jersey’ Rev. Stat. §48.3-77.1 permits ownership of distribution wires by local suppliers to service customers to whom they also deliver thermal energy services.
New York permits qualified renewable energy and cogeneration facilities to sell to customers located “at or near the project site.”
California permits sales from a customer-generator to a customer on an adjacent property so long as the wires do not cross a public road.
Electricity customers are awarded up to $5 million per project for generating electricity behind the meter using qualifying new or emerging distributed energy sources or combined heat and power.
The Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority and Hawaii Energy Companies have been ordered by the Public Service Commission to reenergize the on-bill program instigated by Act 204.