Bill Text: IA SF2096 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 2096 (Prior Session Legislation)

IA State Legislature page for SF2096

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a solar energy minimum purchase standard applicable to specified electric utilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - Subcommittee: Chapman, Feenstra, and McCoy. S.J. 166. [SF2096 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2096-Introduced.html


Senate File 2096 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  BOLKCOM, DOTZLER,
                                     QUIRMBACH, DVORSKY,
                                     JOCHUM, HORN, McCOY,
                                     PETERSEN, BOULTON, and
                                     HOGG

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act establishing a solar energy minimum purchase standard
  2    applicable to specified electric utilities.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 476.44, subsection 2, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended by striking the subsection.
  1  3    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  476.44B  Solar energy minimum purchase
  1  4 standard.
  1  5    An electric utility required to be rate=regulated under this
  1  6 chapter shall produce or purchase, by July 1 of the designated
  1  7 year, the following minimum amounts of electricity generated by
  1  8 solar energy facilities:
  1  9    1.  One thousand five hundred megawatts in 2020.
  1 10    2.  Two thousand megawatts in 2022.
  1 11    3.  Three thousand megawatts in 2025, and each year
  1 12 thereafter.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 15 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 16    Electric utilities are currently required to either own or
  1 17 purchase their proportionate share of 105 megawatts of power
  1 18 from alternative energy production facilities or small hydro
  1 19 facilities, as those terms are defined in Code section 476.42.
  1 20 That proportionate share is allocated by the Iowa utilities
  1 21 board.
  1 22    This bill replaces this requirement with a solar energy
  1 23 minimum purchase standard applicable to electric utilities
  1 24 required to be rate=regulated under Code chapter 476. The
  1 25 bill requires rate=regulated electric utilities to either
  1 26 produce or purchase the following amounts of solar energy as
  1 27 specified: 1,500 megawatts by July 1, 2020; 2,000 megawatts
  1 28 by July 1, 2022; and 3,000 megawatts by July 1, 2025, and each
  1 29 year thereafter.
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