Virginia Senate Bill 876 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-03 - Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Electric utility regulation; clean energy standard. Replaces the voluntary renewable energy portfolio standard program with a mandatory clean energy standard (CES) program that sets requirements for all investor-owned electric utilities and cooperative electric utilities. The CES program requires 30 percent of the total electric energy sold by each utility in 2030 to be clean energy, which is defined as electricity generated without emitting carbon dioxide or generated by a natural gas-fired facility with 80 percent carbon capture or a coal-fired facility with 90 percent carbon capture. The CES Goals increase incrementally in future years until 2050 and thereafter, by which time 100 percent of the electric energy sold is required to be clean energy. The measure requires a utility that fails to meet a CES Goal to pay a compliance payment. The measure also requires each electric utility (i) to include a clean energy plan in each of its integrated resource plans and (ii) by January 1, 2030, to decommission all of its coal-fired electric generation facilities.

Electric utility regulation; mandatory clean energy standard program.

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

2020-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-03	Senate	Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
2020-01-23	Senate	Assigned C&L sub: Energy
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104098D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB876
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB876+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0085+SB0876