Virginia House Bill 2500 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Electric utilities; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard. Replaces the existing voluntary renewable energy portfolio standard program with a mandatory renewable portfolio standard program that requires each investor-owned electric utility to generate or purchase, from facilities in the Commonwealth, increasing percentages of electric power that is generated from qualifying renewable sources. The required percentages start at a minimum of 20 percent of the total electric energy sold in 2020. The required percentages increase in steps until 2027; in that year and thereafter, at least 80 percent of the total electric energy sold is required to be generated from qualifying renewable sources. A utility that fails to comply with an RPS standard established for a year is required to pay a compliance fee of 10 cents for each kilowatt-hour by which it failed to meet the standard.

Electric utilities; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard.

Del. Richard Sullivan [D]

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]

2019-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (1-Y 7-N) (Y: 1 N: 7 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2019-01-24	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (1-Y 7-N)
2019-01-15	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100534D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2500
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2500+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1403V0014+HB2500