Virginia House Bill 1155 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; net energy metering and third party purchase agreements. Exempts generators that are not organized as a public service company and that provide electric energy from renewable energy to retail customers under certain power purchase agreements from being defined as a public utility or a supplier. The measure authorizes retail customers to purchase electric energy from such generators, provided that the renewable energy electricity generation source is located on property owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the retail customer or any affiliated person. The net energy metering programs are amended to remove the one percent cap relative to total utility sales for net metered facilities. The State Corporation Commission is directed to establish separate net energy metering programs for eligible multi-meter customer-generators, who are customers that own or operate, or contract with another person to own or operate, or both, a renewable energy generating facility that (i) uses as its sole energy source solar power, wind power, or aerobic or anaerobic digester gas; (ii) does not have an aggregate generation capacity of more than one megawatt; and (iii) is used primarily to provide energy to metered accounts of the customer. The measure amends the Commonwealth's energy policy by adding the goals of encouraging private sector distributed renewable energy, increasing security of the electricity grid by supporting distributed renewable energy projects, and augmenting the exercise of private property rights by landowners desiring to generate their own energy from renewable energy sources on their

Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; net energy metering.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2018-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 4-N) (Y: 6 N: 4 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2018-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 4-N)
2018-01-23	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2018-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102622D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1155
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1155+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1403V0021+HB1155