Virginia HB 1067: Electric utilities; net energy metering.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1067 

Offered January 8, 2020 

Prefiled January 7, 2020 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 56-594 of the Code of Virginia, 
 relating to electric utility regulation; net energy metering. 
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Patron-- Kory 

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Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 56-594 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 56-594. Net energy metering provisions.

A. The Commission shall establish by regulation a program that 
 affords eligible customer-generators the opportunity to participate in net 
 energy metering, and a program, to begin no later than July 1, 2014, for 
 customers of investor-owned utilities and to begin no later than July 1, 2015, 
 and to end July 1, 2019, for customers of electric cooperatives as provided in 
 subsection G, to afford eligible agricultural customer-generators the 
 opportunity to participate in net energy metering. The regulations may include, 
 but need not be limited to, requirements for (i) retail sellers; (ii) owners or 
 operators of distribution or transmission facilities; (iii) providers of 
 default service; (iv) eligible customer-generators; (v) eligible agricultural 
 customer-generators; or (vi) any combination of the foregoing, as the 
 Commission determines will facilitate the provision of net energy metering, 
 provided that the Commission determines that such requirements do not adversely 
 affect the public interest. On and after July 1, 2017, small agricultural 
 generators or eligible agricultural customer-generators may elect to 
 interconnect pursuant to the provisions of this section or as small 
 agricultural generators pursuant to � 56-594.2, but not both. Existing eligible 
 agricultural customer-generators may elect to become small agricultural 
 generators, but may not revert to being eligible agricultural customer-generators 
 after such election. On and after July 1, 2019, interconnection of eligible 
 agricultural customer-generators shall cease for electric cooperatives only, 
 and such facilities shall interconnect solely as small agricultural generators. 
 For electric cooperatives, eligible agricultural customer-generators whose 
 renewable energy generating facilities were interconnected before July 1, 2019, 
 may continue to participate in net energy metering pursuant to this section for 
 a period not to exceed 25 years from the date of their renewable energy 
 generating facility's original interconnection.

B. For the purpose of this section:

"Eligible agricultural customer-generator" means a 
 customer that operates a renewable energy generating facility as part of an 
 agricultural business, which generating facility (i) uses as its sole energy