HB 2200 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Electric utilities; renewable portfolio standard program, deficiency payments.

Summary

Electric utilities; renewable portfolio standard program; deficiency payments. Removes provisions requiring deficiency payments by certain electric utilities if such utilities are unable to meet the compliance obligation of the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program requirements or if the cost of renewable energy certificates necessary to comply with RPS program requirements exceeds $45 per megawatt hour.

Issues: ✗ Energy ✗ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → HLC Sub: Subcommittee #3 Substitute · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended and resubstituted with formatting changes and minor text adjustments, but the substantive policy content regarding renewable energy requirements, retirement schedules, and utility obligations remains unchanged from the original version. The primary difference is the addition of a 'Substitute' header indicating this is a committee-substituted version offered for consideration on January 23, 2025.

TECHNICAL

Added substitute header and formatting markers indicating this is a House Committee on Labor and Commerce substitute version offered for consideration on 1/23/2025, with patron attribution to Delegate Kilgore.

Reorganized the RPS compliance percentage schedule table with different formatting and line breaks, though the actual percentage values for Phase I and Phase II Utilities remain identical to the original version.

Added page number references and draft status indicators throughout the document, indicating this is a working draft version submitted for legislative consideration.

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Committee

Jan 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 4-N)

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3

lower

Jan 7, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce

lower

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