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HB 2334 Solar-powered or wind-powered electricity generation facility; SCC to conduct pilot program, etc.

Introduced by: David E. Yancey | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Renewable energy power purchase agreements. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a pilot program in a certain utility's service territory. Under the pilot program, a person that owns or operates a solar-powered or wind-powered electricity generation facility with a capacity between 50 kilowatts and one megawatt that is located on premises owned or leased by an eligible customer-generator will be allowed to sell the electricity generated from such facility exclusively to the eligible customer-generator under a power purchase agreement. The power purchase agreement will provide for third party financing of the costs of the renewable generation facility. The minimum size requirement does not apply to certain nonprofit entities. The SCC shall establish guidelines concerning aspects of the pilot program by December 1, 2013. This bill is identical to SB 1023.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Renewable energy power purchase agreements. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct a pilot program in a certain utility's service territory. Under the pilot program, a person that owns or operates a solar-powered or wind-powered electricity generation facility located on premises owned or leased by an eligible customer-generator will be allowed sell the electricity generated from such facility exclusively to the eligible customer-generator under a power purchase agreement. The power purchase agreement will provide for third party financing of the costs of the renewable generation facility.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Electric utility regulation; sales by net metering sellers. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy from a net metering seller if three conditions are satisfied. First, the customer shall be an eligible customer-generator under Virginia's net energy metering program. Second, the customer shall be financing the acquisition, installation, maintenance, or operation of the generating facility through a power purchase agreement with the net metering seller. Third, the generating facility shall (i) have a capacity of not more than 20 kilowatts for residential customers and 500 kilowatts for nonresidential customers unless a utility elects a higher capacity limit for such a facility; (ii) use as its total source of fuel renewable energy; (iii) be located on the customer's premises and be connected to the customer's wiring on the customer's side of its interconnection with the distributor; (iv) be interconnected and operated in parallel with an electric company's transmission and distribution facilities; and (v) be intended primarily to offset all or part of the customer's own electricity requirements. A net metering seller, who is defined as a person that owns or operates a renewable energy electricity generation source on the premises owned, leased, or controlled by an eligible customer-generator and sells the electricity generated by the renewable energy generation source exclusively to the customer-generator pursuant to a power purchase agreement, is excluded from the definition of "public utility" in the Utility Facilities Act and from the definition of "supplier" in the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act.