Community and agricultural net metering; requires State Corporation Commission to establish program. (HB441)
Introduced By
Del. David Toscano (D-Charlottesville)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Community and agricultural net metering. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a program of community net metering, which will allow a group of residential, small commercial, and other customers to establish an "eligible community customer" to act collectively to generate renewable energy for their own use. Members of an eligible community customer develop a net metered system that provides that excess generation by some members of the group will be used to offset consumption by other members within the group. The generating capacity of an eligible community customer's facility shall not exceed two megawatts at a single site but may exceed the amount of electricity provided by the incumbent electric utility over a net metering period at the site that hosts the generation facility. If electricity generated by the generation facility or facilities within the eligible community customer group in a year exceeds the net electricity consumption by members of the group, the utility shall reduce the eligible community customer's bill for the next monthly billing period by the amount of the excess. The measure also creates a category of eligible customer-generators for operators of agricultural net metering facilities that have a capacity not exceeding two megawatts. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/12/2010 | Committee |
| 01/12/2010 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103724D |
| 01/12/2010 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 01/17/2010 | Impact statement from SCC (HB441) |
| 01/29/2010 | Assigned C & L sub: #3 Special Subcommittee on Energy |
| 02/09/2010 | Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2011 (12-Y 0-N) |
| 02/11/2010 | Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor |
Comments
Carried over in subcommittee. Amended at lines 28 & 33 after "separate" inserted "but contiguous" thereby severely restricting the reach of the bill. Delegate Johnson (D) made motion to Report, not seconded. Not sure who motioned to carry over, but it was. The Democrats on the subcommittee did not do a thing to fight for this bill. Dominion, AEP, and the lobbyist for the Co-ops all opposed the bill. A group of people spoke for the bill.