HB 1512 Virginia House of Delegates · 2026 Regular Session

Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources.

Summary
Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources. Requires that, in order to qualify as renewable energy standard eligible sources under the renewable portfolio standard program, certain waste-to-energy resources, landfill gas-fired resources, and biomass-fired facilities be electric generating sources. Additionally, the bill requires, for waste-to-energy and landfill gas-fired resources to qualify, that such resources not use waste heat from fossil fuel combustion or credit thermal output or use the renewable thermal energy equivalent calculation to produce renewable energy certificates (RECs). Finally, the bill requires the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to revoke and invalidate RECs if the Commission finds them to have been inappropriately or erroneously produced, registered, sold, banked, or retired and requires utilities to procure and retire RECs to cover any amount revoked and invalidated.
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Jan 2026
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Introduced Jan 23, 2026 Last action Feb 18, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
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Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
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Jan 23, 2026
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Presented and ordered printed 26105467D
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