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An Act To Allow Certain Hydropower Facilities To Sell Electricity Directly to Rural Manufacturing and Industrial Sites
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. P&SL 2001, c. 45, §2-A, as enacted by P&SL 2009, c. 40, §1, is amended to read:
Sec. 2-A. Sale of electricity; municipally owned electricity provider. Electricity generated by the hydropower facilities that is not under contract to be sold to the paper production facilities in Millinocket and East Millinocket or to any other entity may be offered for sale by the owner of the hydropower facilities to any municipally owned electricity provider serving the Katahdin region, and, if that electricity is so offered, the parties shall negotiate in good faith to reach mutually agreeable terms of sale. The owner of the hydropower facilities may offer to a municipally owned electricity provider serving the Katahdin region a right of first refusal with respect to the purchase of electricity generated by the hydropower facilities. Electricity generated by the hydropower facilities that is not under contract to be sold to another entity may be offered for sale by the owner of the hydropower facilities to the owner or tenant of a rural manufacturing or industrial site. For the purposes of this section, "municipally owned electricity provider" means a municipally owned entity authorized under applicable law to buy and sell electricity.
 
SUMMARY
This bill allows the owner of certain hydropower facilities to offer for sale to the owner or tenant of a rural manufacturing or industrial site electricity generated by those hydropower facilities that is not under contract to be sold to another entity.