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2021 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor
Subcommittee Energy

Spruill (Chair), Norment, Newman, Lucas, Marsden

Clerk: Hobie Lehman
Staff: Marvi Ali, Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: January 27, 2021
Time and Place: 8am/SR East/ Members of the public can register at the GA website
https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3

S.B. 1247

Patron: Deeds

Electric utilities; closure of carbon-emitting generating units. Requires each owner of a large carbon-emitting power plant to provide a facility retirement study every 18 months. The bill requires that whenever a generation asset owner makes the decision to close a plant, such owner must provide notice to relevant localities and state agencies within 14 days of making that decision.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-580 of the Code of Virginia, relating to electric utilities; closure of carbon-emitting generating units.

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S.B. 1284

Patron: Favola

Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy. Establishes the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy, replacing the Commonwealth Energy Policy. The bill sets out the energy policy and objectives of the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy, which include: (i) the Commonwealth recognizes that effectively addressing climate change and enhancing resilience will advance the health, welfare, and safety of the residents of the Commonwealth and that addressing climate change requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the Commonwealth's economy sufficient to reach net-zero emission by 2045 in all sectors, including the electric power, transportation, industrial, agricultural, building, and infrastructure sectors; (ii) the Commonwealth recognizes the need to promote environmental justice and ensure that it is carried out throughout the Commonwealth and the need to address and prevent energy inequities in historically economically disadvantaged communities; and (iii) the Commonwealth must continue to prioritize economic competiveness and workforce development in an equitable manner.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 56-46.1, 56-585.1, 56-598, 56-601, 62.1-199, 67-103, 67-104, and 67-201 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 67-101.1; and to repeal §§ 67-101 and 67-102 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Commonwealth Energy Policy.

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S.B. 1292

Patron: McClellan

Electric utilities; overearnings; customer bill credits. Requires the State Corporation Commission to direct that 100 percent of the amount of a utility's earnings above a certain threshold be credited to customers' bills. Under current law, the Commission is required to direct that 70 percent of such overearnings be credited to customers' bills. The provisions of the bill apply to the first triennial review of Dominion Energy Virginia conducted after January 1, 2021.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-585.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to electric utilities; overearnings; customer bill credits.

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S.B. 1295

Patron: DeSteph

Electric utilities; procurement. Requires a utility, in the construction of certain offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, and energy storage facilities, to procure, subject to a competitive process, equipment from a Virginia-based or United States-based manufacturer using materials or product components made in Virginia or the United States, if available.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 56-585.1:11 and 56-585.5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to electric utilities; procurement.

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S.B. 1420

Patron: Edwards

Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers; third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilot programs under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generation facility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator through a third party power purchase agreement, both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customers may participate on a first-come, first-serve basis.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 1 of the first enactment of Chapters 358 and 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013, as amended by Chapter 803 of the Acts of Assembly of 2017, and as amended by Chapters 1187, 1188, 1189, 1193, 1194, and 1239 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, relating to electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers; third party power purchase agreements.

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