Section 362:4-c Electric Generation Companies, When Public Utilities. - New Hampshire Statutes

   I. The term ""public utility'' shall not include any entity determined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be an exempt wholesale generator, nor shall it include any corporation, company, association, limited liability company, joint stock association, partnership, or person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court, solely by virtue of owning, operating, or managing any plant or equipment or any part of the same which has received a certificate of site and facility as an energy facility or as a bulk power supply facility pursuant to RSA 162-H after July 1, 1998, or are sold after July 1, 1998, for the generation or sale of electricity or for transmission of electricity from such a plant to an interconnection with the transmission grid.
   II. Any entity exempted by this section may seek public utility status from the commission if it so chooses.

Source. 1998, 191:2; 253:4. 2004, 148:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.