Bill Text: VA SB828 | 2020 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Carbon-free energy and clean energy; definition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) [SB828 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2020-SB828-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 828 Offered January 8, 2020 Prefiled January 8, 2020 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 1-208.1, relating to the definitions of carbon-free energy and clean energy. ---------- Patron-- Lewis ---------- Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 1-208.1 as follows:

§1-208.1. Carbon-free energy; clean energy.

"Carbon-free energy" or "clean energy" means electric energy generated from a source that does not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the process of generating the electric energy, including electric energy generated by the conversion of sunlight, wind, falling water, wave motion, tides, geothermal or nuclear energy.