Virginia Senate Bill 973

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Hearing: Jan 14 @ 7:00 pm in Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Pilot program; electric generation from captured waste mine methane; renewable portfolio standard. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program for American Electric Power and Dominion Energy to submit proposals to deploy electric generation that utilizes, in whole or in part, captured waste mine methane, as defined in the bill. Under the bill, reasonable and prudent costs incurred under the captured waste mine methane pilot program shall be recovered through utility base rates for generation and distribution services. Additionally, the bill provides that electricity generated using captured waste mine methane with a non-combustion electric generator under the captured waste mine methane project shall be considered an eligible resource for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard program until December 31, 2045.

Pilot program; electric generation from captured waste mine methane; renewable portfolio standard.

Sen. Travis Hackworth [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2025-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102427D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB973
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB973/text/SB973