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HB1253

Electric utility regulation; net energy metering by municipalities.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Kathy Tran (D)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Net energy metering by municipalities.

Authorizes municipal renewable energy net metering projects. Participating municipalities are authorized to aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of net energy metering from a renewable energy generating facility. To be eligible, the generation facility for the municipal renewable energy net metering project shall use as its sole energy source solar power, wind power, or aerobic or anaerobic digester gas and landfill gas; not have an aggregate generation capacity of more than five megawatts unless a utility elects a higher capacity; be located on land owned, leased, or operated by the municipality; be interconnected and operated in parallel with an electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities; and be used primarily to provide energy to metered accounts of the municipality. The aggregated municipal net metered accounts may be served by multiple meters that are located at separate sites. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/10/2018 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104514D
  • 01/10/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 01/21/2018 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1253)
  • 01/23/2018 - House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3
  • 01/30/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 4-N)
  • 02/13/2018 - House: Left in Commerce and Labor

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