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HB 2477 Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers.

Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION:

Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers. Provides that customers of an incumbent electric utility that is required to obtain capacity for all load and expected load growth in its service area shall, if they purchase energy from a supplier licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth, continue to pay their incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation capacity and transmission related costs incurred by the incumbent electric utility in order to meet such customers' capacity obligations. The measure provides that the advance written notice period applicable to such customers shall be three years. The measure does not apply to customers of licensed suppliers that had an agreement with a licensed supplier entered into before February 1, 2019, or had aggregation petitions pending before the State Corporation Commission prior to January 1, 2019, unless and until such a customer has returned to its incumbent electric utility.The measure requires each licensed retail supplier serving customers of Appalachian Power to file annual reports with the Commission and provides that the failure to do so constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of its license.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers. Provides that customers of an incumbent electric utility that is required to obtain capacity for all load and expected load growth in its service area shall, if they purchase energy from a supplier licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth, continue to pay their incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation capacity and transmission related costs incurred by the incumbent electric utility in order to meet such customers' capacity obligations. The measure provides that the advance written notice period applicable to such customers shall be three years. The measure requires each licensed retail supplier serving customers of Appalachian Power to file annual reports with the Commission and provides that the failure to do so constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of its license.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers. Exempts any electric utility that has had an average capacity load growth in its service territory of less than two percent annually for the previous five years from the provisions that authorize certain large customers to purchase electricity from a licensed supplier. The measure requires such a customer that purchases electricity energy from a licensed supplier to continue to pay its incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation and transmission capacity related costs incurred by the utility in order to meet the customer's capacity obligations. The measure also requires the State Corporation Commission, before approving a petition to allow such a customer to purchase electricity from a licensed supplier, to find that (i) neither the customer's incumbent utility nor other retail customers of such utility will be adversely affected in a manner contrary to the public interest and (ii) the approval of the petition is consistent with the public interest. The measure requires each licensed retail supplier to file annual reports with the Commission and provides that the failure to do so constitutes grounds for suspension or revocation of its license.