Virginia House Bill 912 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) removes the one percent cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory, (ii) authorizes third-party power purchase agreements for all customer classes throughout the Commonwealth, (iii) allows local governments and certain other public bodies to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings, (iv) allows all net metering customers to attribute output from a single solar array to multiple meters, (v) allows the owner of a multifamily residential building or the common areas of a condominium to install a renewable energy generation facility and sell the electricity to tenants or condominium unit owners, (vi) removes the restriction on customers installing a net-metered generation facility larger than that required to meet their previous 12 months' demand, (vii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to two megawatts, and (viii) removes the ability of utilities to assess standby charges. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy.

Distributed renewable energy; promotes establishment of solar and other renewable energy.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	House	Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
2020-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB572-Keam) by voice vote
2020-01-16	House	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
2020-01-15	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-01-15	House	Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103986D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2109.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB912
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB912+hil