Small agricultural generators; establishes parameters of a program. (HB2303)

Introduced By

Del. Randy Minchew (R-Leesburg) with support from co-patrons Del. Steve Landes (R-Weyers Cave), and Del. Joe Lindsey (D-Norfolk)

Progress

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

Description

Small agricultural generators. Establishes the parameters of a program under which small agricultural generators may sell the electricity generated from a small agricultural generating facility to its utility. The program will end enrollment by eligible agricultural customer-generators in the existing net energy metering program effective July 1, 2018, while allowing eligible agricultural customer-generators to remain in the net metering program for not more than 20 years. A small agricultural generator is defined in this measure as a customer who operates an electrical generating facility as part of an agricultural business, which generating facility, among other conditions, has a capacity of not more than 1.5 megawatts, uses renewable energy as its total source of fuel, has a capacity that does not exceed 150 percent of the customer's expected annual energy consumption based on the previous 12 months of billing history, and is a qualifying small power production facility. The program for small agricultural generators requires the generator to enter into a power purchase agreement with its supplier to sell all of the electricity generated at a rate not less than the supplier's State Corporation Commission-approved avoided cost tariff for energy and capacity. The program also provides for utilities to recover distribution service costs and costs incurred to purchase electricity, capacity, and renewable energy certificates from the small agricultural generator through its Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) rate adjustment clause if the utility has a Commission-approved RPS plan and rate adjustment clause or, if the utility does not have a Commission-approved RPS rate adjustment clause, then the costs shall be recoverable through the supplier's fuel adjustment clause or through the utility's cost of purchased power. Finally, the measure directs the Commission to conduct a single docketed proceeding to implement the provisions of this measure. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/12/2017Committee
01/12/2017Presented and ordered printed 17103607D
01/12/2017Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/17/2017Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
01/18/2017Impact statement from SCC (HB2303)
01/31/2017Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (11-Y 1-N)
02/02/2017Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (18-Y 2-N) (see vote tally)
02/02/2017Committee substitute printed 17104829D-H1
02/04/2017Read first time
02/06/2017Read second time
02/06/2017Committee substitute agreed to 17104829D-H1
02/06/2017Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2303H1
02/07/2017Read third time and passed House (81-Y 14-N 2-A)
02/07/2017VOTE: PASSAGE (81-Y 14-N 2-A) (see vote tally)
02/07/2017Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
02/07/2017Passed House (82-Y 13-N 2-A)
02/07/2017VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (82-Y 13-N 2-A) (see vote tally)
02/08/2017Constitutional reading dispensed
02/08/2017Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
02/09/2017Impact statement from SCC (HB2303H1)
02/13/2017Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 1-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/15/2017Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/16/2017Read third time
02/16/2017Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/20/2017Enrolled
02/20/2017Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER)
02/20/2017Signed by Speaker
02/21/2017Signed by President
02/21/2017Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/2017G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
02/22/2017Impact statement from SCC (HB2303ER)
03/16/2017G Approved by Governor-Chapter 565 (effective 7/1/17)
03/16/2017G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 56 seconds.

Transcript

This is a transcript of the video clips in which this bill is discussed.



Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF STEPHEN

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