US Congress House Bill 1624 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on April 15 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-04-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Power Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish a standard by which each electric utility shall make interconnection service available, upon request, to any electric consumer served by the utility with respect to any facility on the consumer's premises that has a power production capacity of at least two megawatts. Grants FERC powers to enforce such standard. Directs FERC to establish, for the consideration of state regulatory authorities, a model standard for the interconnection of small power production facilities that have a power production capacity of between 2 and 20 megawatts.

To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish uniform national standards for the interconnection of certain small power production facilities.

Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Rep. Jay Inslee [D-WA]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
2011-04-15	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1624/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1624/BILLS-112hr1624ih.pdf