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