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Public Service Companies

Passed

P HB317

Passenger rail service liability. Authorizes an authority, comprised of two or more political subdivisions of the Commonwealth that provide public rail transportation services to contract with a railroad company to allocate financial responsibility for claims related to passenger rail services. The measure limits the aggregate liability of the authority and the railroad company for claims arising from a single accident or incident related to passenger rail services to $250 million per incident or accident. Willful and wanton conduct, felonious criminal conduct, and gross negligence are not subject to the cap. The bill provides for an adjustment to the cap for inflation starting in 2011. This bill is identical to SB 652.
Patron - Albo

P HB439

Sewage treatment facilities; governing board. Requires that certain entities that provide sewerage services to residents of the Commonwealth and to another state be managed by a governing board that is comprised of an equal number of residents of Virginia and of the other state. The requirement applies to such entities that operate a sewage treatment facility located in Virginia that has a capacity of at least five million gallons per day and was financed through the Virginia Revolving Loan Fund. The number of members of the governing board is determined based on the number of Virginia localities in which the entity provides sewerage services, with the governing body of each such locality appointing two members. If the members of the governing board deadlock on an issue pertaining to the management of the entity's business and affairs, one-half of the members of the board may petition the State Corporation Commission to arbitrate the issue over which the board is deadlocked. If the articles of incorporation, bylaws, charter, or other organic document of such an entity that was in existence prior to July 1, 2006, is not amended by January 1, 2008, to comply with the requirements regarding the governing board, then the locality wherein the sewage treatment facility is located is authorized to acquire the facility and related property, which acquisition may be by condemnation for the purpose of providing sewerage service to persons residing within the Commonwealth and the Bluestone watershed.
Patron - Crockett-Stark

P HB599

Public utilities; propane air. Clarifies that a propane-air facility that is not organized as a public service company and that sells or delivers propane air only to one or more public utilities is not a public utility. Such facilities shall nevertheless be subject to the State Corporation Commission's jurisdiction relating to gas pipeline safety and enforcement. This bill is identical to SB 507.
Patron - Cosgrove

P HB1081

Diversion of utility service; remedies. Specifies that a provider of utility services that have been tampered with or diverted may seek injunctive and equitable relief, and an award of damages, including reasonable attorney fees and costs. In addition, the aggrieved party may recover an award of actual damages or $500, whichever is greater for each action.
Patron - Scott, J.M.

P HB1198

Voice-over-Internet protocol service; E-911 notice. Eliminates the jurisdiction of the State Corporation Commission to regulate voice-over-Internet protocol service. Voice-over-Internet protocol service is excluded from the scope of the definitions of telephone service, telecommunications service, local exchange telephone service, and interexchange telephone service. Voice-over-Internet protocol service means any service that: (i) enables real-time, two-way voice communications; (ii) requires a broadband connection from the user's location; (iii) requires Internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment (CPE); and (iv) permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network. Providers of voice-over-Internet protocol service or wireless telecommunications service that do not include enhanced 911 (E-911) service are required to provide to their affected subscribers any notice of the absence of E-911 service that is required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Consumers of voice-over-Internet protocol service will be subject to the special local tax for E-911 service. If the FCC requires providers to prepare and file a plan setting forth how providers of voice-over-Internet protocol service propose to develop and implement the capability for voice-over-Internet protocol service users to have E-911 service, the providers shall submit a copy of the plan to the State Corporation Commission and Wireless E-911 Services Board. Providers are not liable for damages for acts or omissions resulting from rendering service related to emergency calls unless the act or omission results from its gross negligence or willful misconduct
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

P HB1220

Electric utility restructuring; municipal utilities. Provides that a municipal electric utility will not become subject to the provisions of the Electric Utility Restructuring Act as a result of serving an area that was served by an incumbent electric utility as of July 1, 1999, if the change in service areas is made pursuant to mutual agreement between the municipality and the affected incumbent electric utility in accordance with a provision in the Utility Facilities Act. This bill is identical to SB 613.
Patron - Barlow

P HB1541

Electric utility restructuring; net energy metering. Expands the definition of an eligible customer-generator to include a customer that contracts with other persons to own, operate, or both, an eligible electrical generating facility. Currently, the customer must own and operate the generating facility. The measure also allows such facilities to have any renewable energy as their total source of fuel; currently, only facilities that use solar, wind, or hydro energy are eligible. Finally, the measure allows a facility that is located on the customer's premises and is connected to the wiring on the customer's side of its interconnection with the distributor to qualify for net energy metering; currently, the facility must be located on the customer's premises.
Patron - Toscano

P SB262

Virginia Energy Plan. Establishes an energy policy of the Commonwealth and directs the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission, Department of Environmental Quality, and Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, to prepare, by July 1, 2007, a ten-year comprehensive Virginia Energy Plan to implement the Commonwealth's energy policy. With respect to offshore energy resources, the bill (i) declares that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage the members of the State Congressional Delegation and federal executive agencies to develop, support, and enact federal legislation, and to take appropriate federal executive action that will provide an exemption to the moratorium that prevents until 2012 any surveying, exploration, development, or production of potential natural gas deposits in areas off the Commonwealth's Atlantic shore that are under federal jurisdiction, and to develop, support, and enact federal legislation that will enable the Commonwealth to exercise exclusive jurisdiction with respect to offshore wind energy resources; (ii) directs royalties and other moneys paid by the federal government as a result of the development of offshore energy resources to be deposited in a State Offshore Energy Revenue Fund and allocated among the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund, the Transportation Trust Fund, clean coal technology research, a Coastal Energy Research Consortium and other alternative energy initiatives, and grants for producing and using clean and efficient energy; (iii) directs all agencies, boards and commissions of the Commonwealth to ensure that any permits or approvals that are required for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons within federal jurisdictional areas off the Commonwealth's Atlantic shore provide that such exploration and production will be undertaken in a manner protective of the environment and public safety; (iv) prohibits the drilling of any wells for natural gas or oil in areas off the Commonwealth's Atlantic shore within 30 miles of the shoreline; and (v) prohibits the construction of onshore natural gas exploration and production facilities on the Eastern Shore. Other initiatives (a) establish a Clean Coal Technology Research Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research and used to finance research initiatives at state institutions of higher education and to encourage qualified state educational institutions to apply for federal grants to finance a center of excellence for advancing new clean coal technologies; (b) require designs for state buildings to incorporate reasonable cost-effective energy conservation measures and alternative energy systems; (c) direct the Commonwealth Transportation Board to encourage the use of biodiesel and other alternative fuels, to the extent practicable, in vehicles used to provide public transportation; (d) create the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium, to include Old Dominion University, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, James Madison University, and Norfolk State University, to serve as an interdisciplinary study, research, and information resource on coastal energy issues, including wave or tidal action, currents, offshore winds, thermal differences, and methane hydrates; (e) prohibit community associations from enacting any provisions restricting solar power or the use of solar energy collection devices on units or lots that are part of the development, except to the extent provided in the applicable instruments, declaration or rules, and authorizes community associations to prohibit or restrict the installation and use of such solar energy collection devices on the common elements or common areas; and (f) declare it to be the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage the members of the State Congressional Delegation and federal executive agencies to develop, support, and enact federal legislation, and to take appropriate federal executive action, that will increase the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards from the current standard by promoting performance-based tax credits for advanced technology, fuel-efficient vehicles to facilitate the introduction and purchase of such vehicles and by advocating for market incentives and education programs to build demand for high-efficiency, cleaner vehicles, including tax incentives for highly efficient vehicles. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to develop a system for scoring parcels in the Commonwealth for their suitability as wind energy facilities, liquefied natural gas facilities, nuclear energy facilities, and solar energy facilities, upon recommendation by the Department of General Services for state-owned land, local governing bodies with the consent of the parcel's owner, or the owner of a parcel. Parcels that are scored as being optimal sites for such low-emission energy facilities would be eligible to use a one-stop permitting process, as may be adopted by the General Assembly. The State Corporation Commission and Secretary of Natural Resources are directed to prepare a proposal for a one-stop permitting process for low-emission energy facilities, which proposal shall be presented by December 1, 2006. The bill also provides grant awards for producing and using clean and efficient energy including grant awards in the amount of 0.85 cents for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced by a corporation from certain renewable energy resources and grants to individuals and corporations equal to 15 percent of the cost incurred in installing photovoltaic property, solar water heating property, or wind-powered electrical generators. The grants are limited to $2,000 for each system of photovoltaic property, $1,000 for each system of solar water heating property, and $1,000 for each system of wind-powered electrical generators. Finally, the measure exempts from property taxation certified pollution control equipment and facilities used in collecting, processing, and distributing landfill gas and other gas recovered from waste products..
Patron - Wagner

P SB380

Gas utilities; performance-based regulation. Provides that performance-based ratemaking of a gas utility may include fixed or capped rates and reduction or elimination of regulatory requirements, in addition to existing elements. A performance-based ratemaking methodology for a gas utility means a method of establishing rates and charges that are in the public interest and that departs from cost-of-service ratemaking methodology. In deciding whether to approve a request for such methodology, the State Corporation Commission shall include, but not be limited to, in its consideration, measures that are reasonably estimated to preserve or improve system reliability, safety, supply diversity, and transportation options, and other customer benefits that are reasonably estimated to accrue from the proposal. The measure does not apply to plans for performance-based regulation pending on January 1, 2006.
Patron - McDougle

P SB395

Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act. Expands the powers and duties of the Wireless E-911 Services Board to include developing a statewide enhanced 9-1-1 plan for voice-over-Internet service and future communications technologies accessing E-911 for emergency purposes. The formula for distribution of money in the Wireless E-911 fund is revised to provide that 60 percent will be provided to public safety answering points (PSAPs), 30 percent will be provided for payment of Wireless E-911 CMRS costs, and the remaining 10 percent will be provided for needs-based grants to be defined by the Board for PSAPs. The bill also increases the size of the Board from 14 to 15 members.
Patron - Stolle

P SB507

Sewage treatment facilities; governing board. Requires that certain entities that provide sewerage services to residents of the Commonwealth and to another state be managed by a governing board that is comprised of an equal number of residents of Virginia and of the other state. The requirement applies to such entities that operate a sewage treatment facility located in Virginia that has a capacity of at least five million gallons per day and was financed through the Virginia Revolving Loan Fund. The number of members of the governing board is determined based on the number of Virginia localities in which the entity provides sewerage services, with the governing body of each such locality appointing two members. If the members of the governing board deadlock on an issue pertaining to the management of the entity's business and affairs, one-half of the members of the board may petition the State Corporation Commission to arbitrate the issue over which the board is deadlocked. If the articles of incorporation, bylaws, charter, or other organic document of such an entity that was in existence prior to July 1, 2006, is not amended by January 1, 2008, to comply with the requirements regarding the governing board, then the locality wherein the sewage treatment facility is located is authorized to acquire the facility and related property, which acquisition may be by condemnation for the purpose of providing sewerage service to persons residing in the Commonwealth and the Bluestone Watershed. This bill is identical to HB 439.
Patron - Puckett

P SB613

P SB652

P SB666

Public-Private Transportation Act; "concessions." Authorizes "concession" agreements under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995.
Patron - Saslaw

P SB688

Public utility lines crossing railroads. Establishes a procedure for the State Corporation Commission to determine matters pertaining to the construction and operation of municipal water, sewer, and telecommunications lines, wires, pipes, and conduits that cross railroads. The application shall include standard railroad liability protection insurance. If the Commission grants an application requiring the railroad to grant to the municipality a license for such crossing, it may require the payment to the railroad company of damages and a fee, which fee shall not exceed the actual costs reasonably expected to be incurred by the railroad company as a result of the crossing and the periodic inspection of such works, but shall take into consideration the system-wide administrative and other costs of implementing crossing agreements.
Patron - Wampler

Failed

F HB700

Electricity rates. Requires that from July 1, 2006, until the end of the capped rate period, an electric utility shall not be eligible to have its tariffs adjusted to reflect changes in its fuel costs, including the cost of purchased power, other than through a comprehensive rate case to establish reasonable and just rates for the service of the utility. The electric utility's capped rates will be adjusted to the levels established through the rate case.
Patron - Hogan

F HB725

Underground utility damage prevention; trenchless excavation. Establishes restrictions on the conduct of trenchless excavation. Steps required to be taken by trenchless excavators include (i) ensuring that bore equipment stakes are installed not less than 36 inches from marked utility lines; (ii) ensuring that grounding rods are installed not less than 24 inches from a buried utility line that has a marked or staked location; and (iii) ensuring that a minimum radial clearance of 12 inches is maintained between the bore path and any underground utility lines during pullback. In addition, the use of trenchless excavation is prohibited in the vicinity of buried utility lines that have not been marked or exposed. The location of utility lines in the bore path are required to be exposed by hand digging which, if the boring will parallel buried lines, shall be done at reasonable distances of not greater than 150 feet along the bore path.
Patron - McQuigg

F HB944

Public utilities; wireless service. Provides that commercial mobile radio service is a public utility for purposes of regulation of certain aspects of service by the State Corporation Commission. The measure does not authorize regulation of the rates of wireless service.
Patron - Morgan

F HB1153

Virginia Energy Plan. Establishes an energy policy of the Commonwealth and directs the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission, Department of Environmental Quality, and Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, to prepare a comprehensive Virginia Energy Plan to implement the policy. The measure directs the Virginia Liaison Office to work with members of the State Congressional Delegation and executive agencies to obtain an exemption to the existing federal moratorium on offshore natural gas exploration and development activity, and to enable Virginia to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over offshore wind energy resources. Royalties, lease payments, and other moneys paid by the federal government to the Commonwealth that are attributable to the development of offshore energy resources are to be deposited in the State Offshore Energy Revenue Fund and allocated among Chesapeake Bay water quality improvement programs and efforts, the Transportation Trust Fund, clean coal technology research, funding a methane hydrates research center and other alternative energy initiatives, and grants for producing and using clean and efficient energy. The Virginia Liaison Office is also directed to work with members of the State Congressional Delegation and executive agencies to enact legislation that increases the corporate average fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles. The Center for Coal and Energy Research is directed to encourage qualified state institutions of higher education to apply for federal grants to finance a center of excellence for advancing new clean coal technologies and will administer a clean coal technology research fund. Designs for state buildings are required to incorporate reasonable cost-effective energy conservation measures and alternative energy systems. The measure requires all localities and transportation districts that provide mass transit or public transportation through the use of diesel-fueled vehicles to use biodiesel fuel in amounts not less than 1 percent of total diesel fuel consumption by volume, effective when the annual capacity in the Commonwealth for the production of biodiesel fuel exceeds one million gallons, but in no event before July 1, 2007, as a condition for receiving state funding. A methane hydrates research center is established at Old Dominion University. The measure invalidates any restrictive covenant or similar specification that restricts or prohibits solar energy collection devices. The measure also directs the State Corporation Commission to develop a system for scoring parcels in the Commonwealth for their suitability as wind energy facilities, liquefied natural gas terminals, and nuclear energy facilities, upon recommendation by the Department of General Services for state-owned land, local governing bodies with the consent of the parcel's owner, or the owner of a parcel. Parcels that are scored as being optimal sites for such low-emission energy facilities would be eligible to use a one-stop permitting process, as may be adopted by the General Assembly. If approvals for such a facility are granted through the one-stop permitting process, the use of the parcel for the low-emission energy facility would be deemed to satisfy local zoning requirements. The existing Surry and North Anna nuclear plant sites and other sites determined through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing process to be suitable for development of new nuclear generating units shall be deemed optimal sites without further proceedings. The bill also provides grant awards for producing and using clean and efficient energy including (i) grant awards in the amount of 0.85 cents for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced by a corporation from certain renewable energy resources and (ii) grants to individuals and corporations equal to 15 percent of the cost incurred in installing photovoltaic property, solar water heating property, or wind-powered electrical generators. The grants are limited to $2,000 for each system of photovoltaic property, $1,000 for each system of solar water heating property, and $1,000 for each system of wind-powered electrical generators. The measure provides individual income tax deductions for 20 percent of the cost of certain appliances meeting energy star efficiency requirements developed by the federal government and for fuel cells, heat pumps, air conditioners, boilers, furnaces and water heaters meeting specified performance measures, and for the sales and use tax paid on motor vehicles using clean special fuel sources as a source of propulsion. Finally, the measure exempts certified pollution control equipment and facilities used in collecting, processing, and distributing landfill gas or natural gas recovered from waste from taxation. This bill is identical to HB 1292.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB1292

Virginia Energy Plan. Establishes an energy policy of the Commonwealth and directs the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission, Department of Environmental Quality, and Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, to prepare a comprehensive Virginia Energy Plan to implement the policy. The measure directs the Virginia Liaison Office to work with members of the State Congressional Delegation and executive agencies to obtain an exemption to the existing federal moratorium on offshore natural gas exploration and development activity, and to enable Virginia to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over offshore wind energy resources. Royalties, lease payments, and other moneys paid by the federal government to the Commonwealth that are attributable to the development of offshore energy resources are to be deposited in the State Offshore Energy Revenue Fund and allocated equally among the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund, the Transportation Trust Fund, and distributions to Virginia citizens on a per capita basis. The Virginia Liaison Office is also directed to work with members of the State Congressional Delegation and executive agencies to enact legislation that increases the corporate average fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles. The Center for Coal and Energy Research is directed to encourage qualified state institutions of higher education to apply for federal grants to finance a center of excellence for advancing new clean coal technologies and will administer a clean coal technology research fund. Designs for state buildings are required to incorporate reasonable cost-effective energy conservation measures and alternative energy systems. The measure requires all localities and transportation districts that provide mass transit or public transportation through the use of diesel-fueled vehicles to use biodiesel fuel in amounts not less than 1 percent of total diesel fuel consumption by volume, effective when the annual capacity in the Commonwealth for the production of biodiesel fuel exceeds one million gallons, but in no event before July 1, 2007, as a condition for receiving state funding. A methane hydrates research center is established at Old Dominion University. The measure invalidates any restrictive covenant or similar specification that restricts or prohibits solar energy collection devices. The measure also directs the State Corporation Commission to develop a system for scoring parcels in the Commonwealth for their suitability as wind energy facilities, liquefied natural gas terminals, and nuclear energy facilities, upon recommendation by the Department of General Services for state-owned land, local governing bodies with the consent of the parcel's owner, or the owner of a parcel. Parcels that are scored as being optimal sites for such low-emission energy facilities would be eligible to use a one-stop permitting process, as may be adopted by the General Assembly. If approvals for such a facility are granted through the one-stop permitting process, the use of the parcel for the low-emission energy facility would be deemed to satisfy local zoning requirements. The existing Surry and North Anna nuclear plant sites and other sites determined through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing process to be suitable for development of new nuclear generating units shall be deemed optimal sites without further proceedings. The bill also provides grant awards for producing and using clean and efficient energy including (i) grant awards in the amount of 0.85 cents for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced by a corporation from certain renewable energy resources and (ii) grants to individuals and corporations equal to 15 percent of the cost incurred in installing photovoltaic property, solar water heating property, or wind-powered electrical generators. The grants are limited to $2,000 for each system of photovoltaic property, $1,000 for each system of solar water heating property, and $1,000 for each system of wind-powered electrical generators. The measure provides individual income tax deductions for 20 percent of the cost of certain appliances meeting energy star efficiency requirements developed by the federal government and for fuel cells, heat pumps, air conditioners, boilers, furnaces and water heaters meeting specified performance measures, and for the sales and use tax paid on motor vehicles using clean special fuel sources as a source of propulsion. Finally, the measure exempts certified pollution control equipment and facilities used in collecting, processing, and distributing landfill gas or natural gas recovered from waste from taxation. This bill was incorporated into HB 1153.
Patron - Saxman

F HB1306

Public-Private Transportation Act and the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act; required disclosure by private entity. Requires a private entity to include with its initial submittal the disclosure of (i) whether the private entity directly employs or intends to use the services of a legislator or a firm in which a legislator is a member and (ii) whether a legislator has a personal interest in the proposal or the private entity as defined in § 30-101. The bill also provides that if, after the initial submittal of the proposal, the private entity subsequently employs or uses the services of a legislator or a firm in which a legislator is a member, that the private entity must provide written disclosure to the responsible public entity within 30 days.
Patron - Byron

F HB1426

Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA). Provides for the granting of concessions under the PPTA and the taxation thereof.
Patron - Wardrup

F SB132

Utility service; disconnection of military personnel. Prohibits public utilities from disconnecting service to residential accounts if the customer is in the military and deployed to a foreign armed conflict or national or domestic emergency.
Patron - O'Brien

F SB541

Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act; review and implementation of qualifying projects; Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council. Creates the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review and advise responsible public entities that are agencies or institutions of the Commonwealth on proposals received pursuant to the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (PPEA) and proposed interim or comprehensive agreements pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA). The bill also requires that the guidelines that must be adopted by responsible public entities as required by the PPEA include provisions for the financial review and analysis of the proposed qualifying project and the disclosure of such analysis to the appropriating body and consideration of nonfinancial benefits of a proposed qualifying project, and the bill contains technical amendments.
Patron - Stosch

F SB616

Electrical transmission facilities; zoning preemption. Provides that the State Corporation Commission's approval of the construction of facilities that are appurtenant to an approved electrical transmission line, including substations but not generation facilities, satisfies local zoning requirements with respect to the facilities. Currently, the Commission's approval of a transmission line satisfies zoning requirements only with respect to the transmission line.
Patron - Wagner

F SB719

Approval of route of petroleum products pipelines. Prohibits any public service corporation from acquiring property for a petroleum products pipeline unless the State Corporation Commission has approved the pipeline's route. The measure establishes procedural requirements and criteria for the Commission's consideration of a request for approval of such a pipeline.
Patron - Howell

Carried Over

C HB679

Telephone directories; liability for errors. Requires telephone companies to verify the accuracy of information provided for use in telephone directories. If a directory is published with errors, the telephone company shall not charge for directory information calls regarding the listing with the erroneous information and shall give the subscriber whose information is incorrect a credit of $10 per month.
Patron - Wittman

C HB1116

Railroads; blocking roads; penalty. Increases the maximum fine that may be imposed on railroads for violating prohibitions on blocking streets and roads from $500 to $2,500.
Patron - Athey

C HB1245

Telephone and telegraph line installation; restoring condition of surface; notice. Requires a telephone or telegraph company that opens up or disturbs the surface of private property in erecting, repairing, laying or installing poles, wires, conduits, or cables to restore it as nearly as practicable to the condition that existed prior to its disturbance. The measure also gives the owner of damaged private property the right to recover the cost of restoring and maintaining the property, with interest, costs, and reasonable attorney fees, if the company fails to do so. Localities and the Commonwealth Transportation Board currently have a similar right to recover the costs of restoring and maintaining their properties. The measure also requires companies to give the owner prior written notice of its intent to conduct such activities on the property, including the scheduled date of its commencement, a description of the activity, and contact information. However, such notice is not required for activities conducted in making emergency repairs necessitated by an unplanned interruption in utility service.
Patron - Hugo

C HB1603

Multiline telephone systems. Requires owners or operators of multiline telephone systems serving residential facilities, hotels and motels, business locations, and educational institutions to ensure that a public safety answering point is able to identify the location from which a call to 9-1-1 is placed.
Patron - Rapp

C SB278

Renewable portfolio standard. Requires 20 percent of the electric energy sold by a supplier to retail customers in Virginia to be generated from renewable energy sources by the 2015/2016 reporting year. The requirement is phased in over a 10-year period. A supplier shall be excused from the requirements to the extent that renewable energy resources are not reasonably available in sufficient quantities in the marketplace for the suppliers to meet them. A supplier complies with the requirement by self-generating the renewable energy or purchasing sufficient renewable energy credits. The credits evidence the generation of the energy from renewable sources. A distributor's costs of compliance with these requirements will be recoverable though fuel factor adjustments.
Patron - Whipple

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