West Virginia House Bill 3088 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-10 - To House Government Organization
Pending: House Government Organization Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide the Public Service Commission the authority to require electric and gas utilities to develop and implement plans for the efficient use, conservation and reduction of energy usage. The bill sets forth goals to reduce electricity usage by five percent by 2017, ten percent by 2021 and fifteen percent by 2025. The bill also requires electric utilities to submit plans for reaching those goals, provides for revenue sharing and the opportunity for financial incentives for gas and electric utilities to establish energy saving programs. Additionally, the bill authorizes a special license fee up to $600,000 to be collected from the affected utilities to implement the bill's requirements and establishes a penalty of $0.04 per kilowatt hour for those utilities that fail to comply with the commission's reduction requirements. The bill also provides for a self-direct option for large, energy customers. Moreover, the bill requires the commission to file usage reports and the results of studies concerning whether the energy savings and demand reduction targets beyond 2017 with the Legislature. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.

West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act

Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]

Del. Michael Manypenny [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-10		To House Government Organization
2011-02-10		Introduced in House
2011-02-10		To Government Organization then Finance
2011-02-10		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2G	1	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	10	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	2	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	3	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	4	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	5	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	6	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	7	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	8	New Code	See Bill Text
24	2G	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3088&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3088%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3088