Electricity; SCC to conduct proceeding to determine appropriate energy conservation, etc. (HB2531)

Introduced By

Del. Terry Kilgore (R-Gate City) with support from co-patron Del. Tim Hugo (R-Centreville)

Description

Demand-side management, energy conservation, energy efficiency, and demand reduction. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a proceeding to determine achievable, cost-effective energy conservation and demand response targets that can be accomplished through demand-side management portfolios administered by generating electric utilities. The measure directs the SCC's cost-benefit analysis to take into consideration certain data on program costs and avoided costs and to consider four standard industry-recognized tests. The SCC is required to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 15, 2009. The measure also requires the SCC to approve a demand-side management program that is proposed by a certain generating electric utility or a qualified nonutility provider if certain conditions are satisfied. The Department of Environmental Quality, in consultation with the SCC and Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, is required to adopt regulations that exempt certain customers from the major and minor new source review regulations during verifiable peak shaving periods, to create a class or classes of general permits that would create the same exemptions, or both. Read the Bill »

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