Solar-powered or wind-powered electricity generation facility; SCC to conduct pilot program, etc. (HB2334)

Introduced By

Del. David Yancey (R-Newport News) with support from co-patrons Del. Keith Hodges (R-Urbanna), and Del. Terry Kilgore (R-Gate City)

Description

Electric utility regulation; sales by net metering sellers. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy from a net metering seller if three conditions are satisfied. First, the customer shall be an eligible customer-generator under Virginia's net energy metering program. Second, the customer shall be financing the acquisition, installation, maintenance, or operation of the generating facility through a power purchase agreement with the net metering seller. Third, the generating facility shall (i) have a capacity of not more than 20 kilowatts for residential customers and 500 kilowatts for nonresidential customers unless a utility elects a higher capacity limit for such a facility; (ii) use as its total source of fuel renewable energy; (iii) be located on the customer's premises and be connected to the customer's wiring on the customer's side of its interconnection with the distributor; (iv) be interconnected and operated in parallel with an electric company's transmission and distribution facilities; and (v) be intended primarily to offset all or part of the customer's own electricity requirements. A net metering seller, who is defined as a person that owns or operates a renewable energy electricity generation source on the premises owned, leased, or controlled by an eligible customer-generator and sells the electricity generated by the renewable energy generation source exclusively to the customer-generator pursuant to a power purchase agreement, is excluded from the definition of "public utility" in the Utility Facilities Act and from the definition of "supplier" in the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act. Read the Bill »

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This bill mentions Lynchburg, Fairfax.