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Richmond Sunlight » SB918: Renewable energy; third-party power purchase agreements.
SENATE BILL NO. 918 Offered January 11, 2017 Prefiled December 27, 2016 A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-1.2 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 56-1.2:2, 56-232.2:2, and 56-594.2; and to repeal Chapters 358 and 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013, relating to the regulation of retail sales of electricity under third-party sales agreements.
1. That § 56-1.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding sections numbered 56-1.2:2, 56-232.2:2, and 56-594.2 as follows:
§ 56-1.2. Persons not designated as public utility, public service corporation, etc.
2. Any person who is not a public service corporation and who provides electric vehicle charging service at retail. The ownership or operation of a facility at which electric vehicle charging service is sold, and the selling of electric vehicle charging service from that facility, does not render the person a public utility, public service corporation, or public service company as used in Chapters 1 (§ 56-1 et seq.), 10 (§ 56-232 et seq.), 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.), and 10.2:1 (§ 56-265.13:1 et seq.) solely because of that sale, ownership, or operation; or
3. Any person who is not a public service corporation and who sells electricity generated on site entirely from sources of renewable energy as defined in § 56-576 at retail to a customer pursuant to a third-party power purchase agreement, as defined in § 56-1.2:2, if the sale of electricity is conducted pursuant to a program conducted by the Commission under § 56-594.2. The ownership or operation of such an on-site facility generating electric energy derived entirely from sources of renewable energy from which electric energy is sold to a customer pursuant to a third-party power purchase agreement, and the selling of electric energy to such a customer from that facility, does not render the person a public utility, public service corporation, public service company, or electric utility as used in Chapters 1 (§ 56-1 et seq.), 10 (§ 56-232 et seq.), 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.), 10.2:1 (§ 56-265.13:1 et seq.), and 23 (§ 56-576) solely because of that sale of electricity or its ownership or operation of such a generation facility.
B. The retail sale of electricity generated at a renewable energy facility to a customer who is purchasing or leasing the renewable energy facility by a person who is not a public utility, public service corporation, or public service company shall not constitute the retail sale of electricity if the sale is conducted pursuant to a program conducted by the Commission under § 56-594.2.
The Commission shall not regulate or prescribe the rates, charges, and fees for the retail sale by any person that is not a public service corporation of electric energy generated on site entirely from sources of renewable energy at retail to a customer pursuant to a third-party power purchase agreement entered into pursuant to a program conducted under § 56-594.2. Sales of electricity by public utilities to persons who are not public service corporations pursuant to third-party power purchase agreements shall continue to be regulated by the Commission to the same extent as are other services provided by public utilities. The Commission may adopt regulations implementing this section.
§ 56-594.2. Third-party power purchase agreements.
C. The Commission shall review the program in 2018 and every two years thereafter during the program.
E. Nothing in this section shall be construed as (i) rendering any person, by virtue of its selling electric power to a customer under a third-party power purchase agreement entered into pursuant to the program established under this section, a public utility or a competitive service provider; (ii) imposing a requirement that such a person meet 100 percent of the load requirements for each retail customer account it serves; or (iii) affecting third-party power purchase agreements in effect prior to July 1, 2017.
2. That Chapters 358 and 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013 are repealed.
3. That the repeal of Chapters 358 and 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013 shall not affect the validity of any third-party power purchase agreement entered into prior to July 1, 2017, under a pilot project authorized pursuant to Chapters 358 and 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013.
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