I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4175 
To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote 
safe and reliable interconnection and net billing for community solar facilities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 6, 2019 
Mr. VAN DREW introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 
to promote safe and reliable interconnection and net 
billing for community solar facilities. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Renewable 
Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROVISION OF INTERCONNECTION SERVICE AND 
NET 
BILLING 
SERVICE 
FOR 
COMMUNITY 
SOLAR FACILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 111(d) of the Public Util-
ity Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2621(d)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(20) COMMUNITY SOLAR FACILITIES.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) COMMUNITY SOLAR FACILITY.— 
The term ‘community solar facility’ means 
a solar photovoltaic system that— 
‘‘(I) allocates electricity to mul-
tiple individual electric consumers of 
an electric utility; 
‘‘(II) has a nameplate rating of 2 
megawatts or less; and 
‘‘(III) is— 
‘‘(aa) owned by the electric 
utility, jointly owned, or third- 
party owned; 
‘‘(bb) connected to a local 
distribution facility of the electric 
utility; and 
‘‘(cc) located on or off the 
property of a consumer of the 
electricity. 
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‘‘(ii) INTERCONNECTION
SERVICE.— 
The term ‘interconnection service’ means a 
service provided by an electric utility to an 
electric consumer, in accordance with the 
standards described in paragraph (15), 
through which a community solar facility is 
connected to an applicable local distribu-
tion facility. 
‘‘(iii) NET
BILLING
SERVICE.—The 
term ‘net billing service’ means a service 
provided by an electric utility to an electric 
consumer through which electric energy 
generated for that electric consumer from 
a community solar facility may be used to 
offset electric energy provided by the elec-
tric utility to the electric consumer during 
the applicable billing period. 
‘‘(B) REQUIREMENT.—On receipt of a re-
quest of an electric consumer served by the 
electric utility, each electric utility shall make 
available to the electric consumer interconnec-
tion service and net billing service for a commu-
nity solar facility.’’. 
(b) COMPLIANCE.— 
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‘‘(3) the State legislature has voted on the im-
plementation of the standard (or a comparable 
standard) for the electric utility.’’. 
(B) CROSS-REFERENCE.—Section 124 of 
the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2634) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ‘‘In the case of the 
standard established by paragraph (20) of sec-
tion 111(d), the reference contained in this sub-
section to the date of enactment of this Act 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the date 
of enactment of that paragraph (20).’’. 
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