Bill Text: VA HB2305 | 2023 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Electric utilities, certain; proposed facilities were subject to competitive procurement, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) [HB2305 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2023-HB2305-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 2305 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on February 20, 2023) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Webert) A BILL to require certain electric utilities to demonstrate that certain electrical generating facilities were subject to competitive procurement or solicitation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. In any petition by a Phase I or Phase II Utility, as those terms are defined in subdivision A 1 of §56-585.1 of the Code of Virginia, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct and operate an electrical generating facility that generates electric energy derived from sunlight submitted pursuant to §56-580 of the Code of Virginia, such utility shall demonstrate that the proposed facility was subject to competitive procurement or solicitation pursuant to subdivision D 3 of § 56-585.5 of the Code of Virginia.