Virginia House Bill 832 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Commerce and Energy
Pending: House Commerce and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Electric utilities; shared solar programs. Expands the current shared solar program to include participation by Phase I Utilities. The bill introduces incentives for shared solar programs that are located on rooftops, brownfields, or landfills, are dual-use agricultural facilities, or meet any other category of incentive that the Department of Energy may establish. The bill authorizes the State Corporation Commission to establish a program cap on the amount of capacity for Phase I Utilities' shared solar programs. Provisions of the bill shall be implemented by the State Corporation Commission by December 31, 2022. The bill permits both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customers to participate in a shared solar program and creates a stakeholder group to address interconnection issues and propose changes via petition to the Commission by January 1, 2023. The bill also allows utilities to recover the costs of incentives established by the bill.

Electric utilities; shared solar programs.

Del. Tony Wilt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Commerce and Energy
2022-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023 by voice vote
2022-01-24	House	Assigned sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
2022-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101460D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB832
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB832+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB832F171+PDF