VA HB367 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Parking Lot Solar Development Program and Fund; report. Directs Parking Lot Solar Development Program and Fund; report. Directs the Department of Energy, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish by January 1, 2025, a Parking Lot Solar Development Program for the purpose of encouraging development of distributed parking lot solar projects up to one megawatt in size in the Commonwealth. The bill also creates the Parking Lot Solar Development Fund for the purposes of (i) funding solar renewable energy credit values at an updated 10-year levelized incentive level through the renewable energy certificate market using a solar financing model as described in the bill, (ii) implementing and administering the Parking Lot Solar Development Program, and (iii) implementing and administering an alternative auction site that sets a fixed price for solar renewable energy credits not sold in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to engage in a stakeholder consultation to evaluate the current costs of solar installations and incentive levels across market segments and study benefits to grid security and reliability, ratepayers, and environmental goals of the Commonwealth by December 1, 2024, and every five years thereafter. The bill also directs the Commission to consult with agencies and stakeholders to develop an online mapping database of potential parking lot solar sites for development in the Commonwealth by December 1, 2024. Finally, the bill requires the Department, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to submit an annual report to the General Assembly regarding the implementation of the Parking Lot Solar Development Program for the preceding fiscal year by November 1, 2025.

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Title

Parking Lot Solar Development Pilot Program and Fund; established, report.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-01-31 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-02-13HouseLeft in Appropriations
2024-01-31HouseSubcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N)
2024-01-17HouseAssigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
2024-01-06HouseReferred to Committee on Appropriations
2024-01-06HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101777D

Same As/Similar To

SB234 (Similar To) 2024-02-26 - Continued to 2025 in Appropriations by voice vote

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
4521735(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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