Electricity rates; adjustment clauses. (SB91)

Introduced By

Sen. Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Electricity rates; adjustment clauses. Provides the State Corporation Commission with authority to review the recovery by electric utilities of certain expenses that will be recoverable under current law through rate adjustment clauses. The utility expenses will instead be subject to review as part of the biennial rate review of the utility's total revenues and expenses. Items that are scheduled to be recoverable through rate adjustment clauses include (i) costs for transmission services; (ii) deferred environmental and reliability costs; (iii) costs of providing incentives for the utility to design and operate fair and effective demand-management, conservation, energy efficiency, and load management programs; (iv) costs of participation in the renewable energy portfolio standard program; (v) costs of projects that the SCC finds to be necessary to comply with state or federal environmental laws or regulations applicable to generation facilities used to serve the utilitys native load obligations, and (vi) costs of certain generation projects, including Dominion's proposed coal-fired plant in Southwest Virginia. Provisions that limit the SCC's discretion regarding any incentive return for new generation facilities are repealed. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
12/26/2007Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 080024316
12/26/2007Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/16/2008Impact statement from SCC (SB91)
02/04/2008Left in Commerce and Labor