Mississippi House Bill 784 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 3 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Provide For The Mississippi Distributed Energy Resource Program; To Define Certain Terms; To Set Goals For The Program And To Provide For The Process And Implementation Of The Program, Including The Application And Approval Process For The Program And Cost Recovery; To Provide For A Net Energy Metering Program That Includes Costs And The Responsibilities Of The Public Service Commission And The Public Utilities Staff Relating To The Net Energy Metering Program; To Provide For The Lease Of Renewable Electric Facilities Through A Program, Which Includes An Application Process And Registration With The Public Utilities Staff; To Require The Public Utilities Staff To Report To The Public Service Commission On Costs And Charges Attributable To Distributed Energy Resources Within Current Costs Of Service Rate Making Methodologies; To Require The Public Service Commission To Promulgate Standards For Renewable Energy Facility Interconnection; To Require Each Distribution Electric Cooperatives Board To Consider Net Energy Metering Policies And To Make A Report To The Public Utilities Staff; To Require Each Electric Cooperative To Investigate The Relationship Between Costs And Charges Attributable To Distributed Energy Resources Within Current Costs Of Service Ratemaking Methodologies And Report Its Finding To The Public Utilities Staff; And For Related Purposes.

"Distributed Energy Resource Program" and "Net Energy Metering Program"; create.

Rep. David Baria [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-03	House	Died In Committee
2015-01-19	House	Referred To Energy;Public Utilities

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2015/pdf/history/HB/HB0784.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0784IN.htm