Virginia Senate Bill 1779 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program that affords the opportunity for any locality to participate in net energy metering if it is a retail customer of a certain type of investor-owned electric utility. In order to qualify for the program, the locality is required to own and operate a renewable generating facility with a generating capacity of not more than two megawatts that is located on the municipality's premises and is intended primarily to offset all or part of the locality's own electricity requirements. Under the pilot program, a municipal customer-generator that generates electricity in amounts that exceed the amount of electricity consumed by the municipal customer-generator, determined annually, to credit one or more of the municipality's target metered accounts in order that the generation energy charges on the electric bills of the target's metered accounts are reduced by the amount of excess generation kilowatt hours apportioned to the metered account multiplied by the applicable generation energy rate of the target's accounts. In Appalachian Power's service territory, metered accounts of the public school division of a locality may be target accounts. The amount of generating capacity of all generating facilities that are the subject of a pilot program are limited to (i) five megawatts if Appalachian Power is the pilot program utility, though the utility may increase the amount to up to 10 megawatts or (ii) 25 megawatts if Dominion Power is the pilot program utility. Such aggregated capacities of the generation facilities that are the subject of a pilot program constitute a portion of the existing limit of the utility's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast of the previous year that is available to municipal customer-generators, eligible customer-generators, eligible agricultural customer-generators, and small agricultural generators in the utility's service area. The duration of the pilot program is six years. This bill is identical to HB 2792.

Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2019-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (85-Y 12-N) (Y: 85 N: 12 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-12 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 21 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-21		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
2019-03-21		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 747 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-20		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-20	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2019
2019-02-19	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-18	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-18	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1779ER)
2019-02-18	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-13	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (85-Y 12-N)
2019-02-13	House	Passed House (85-Y 12-N)
2019-02-13	House	Read third time
2019-02-12	House	Read second time
2019-02-12	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 1-N)
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1779S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19105883D-S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19105883D-S1
2019-01-28	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
2019-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 19104691D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1779
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1779+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1779S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1779ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0747+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02V0061+SB1779
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0248SB1779+SB1779
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0278SB1779+SB1779
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0164+SB1779
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2772+SB1779