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Bill	Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering.	Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program that affords the opportunity for any locality to participate in net energy metering if it is a retail customer of a certain type of investor-owned electric utility. In order to qualify for the program, the locality is required to own and operate a renewable generating facility with a generating capacity of not more than two megawatts that is located on the municipality's premises and is intended primarily to offset all or part of the locality's own electricity requirements. Under the pilot program, a municipal customer-generator that generates electricity in amounts that exceed the amount of electricity consumed by the municipal customer-generator, determined annually, to credit one or more of the municipality's target metered accounts in order that the generation energy charges on the electric bills of the target's metered accounts are reduced by the amount of excess generation kilowatt hours apportioned to the metered account multiplied by the applicable generation energy rate of the target's accounts. In Appalachian Power's service territory, metered accounts of the public school division of a locality may be target accounts. The amount of generating capacity of all generating facilities that are the subject of a pilot program are limited to (i) five megawatts if Appalachian Power is the pilot program utility, though the utility may increase the amount to up to 10 megawatts or (ii) 25 megawatts if Dominion Power is the pilot program utility. Such aggregated capacities of the generation facilities that are the subject of a pilot program constitute a portion of the existing limit of the utility's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast of the previous year that is available to municipal customer-generators, eligible customer-generators, eligible agricultural customer-generators, and small agricultural generators in the utility's service area. The duration of the pilot program is six years. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2792	Virginia HB 2792 (2019)	bill	Public Service Companies State Corporation Commission Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	5	17	6	2019-01-18	2019-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/e4b2fa08-a951-4a97-b184-456840196fa8	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2792	aaafd90e7bcf5e5605ca16cb8501ed9a61a2a06f918e4df408addd7fd3a9663d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2792 (2019) — Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering.

Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program that affords the opportunity for any locality to participate in net energy metering if it is a retail customer of a certain type of investor-owned electric utility. In order to qualify for the program, the locality is required to own and operate a renewable generating facility with a generating capacity of not more than two megawatts that is located on the municipality's premises and is intended primarily to offset all or part of the locality's own electricity requirements. Under the pilot program, a municipal customer-generator that generates electricity in amounts that exceed the amount of electricity consumed by the municipal customer-generator, determined annually, to credit one or more of the municipality's target metered accounts in order that the generation energy charges on the electric bills of the target's metered accounts are reduced by the amount of excess generation kilowatt hours apportioned to the metered account multiplied by the applicable generation energy rate of the target's accounts. In Appalachian Power's service territory, metered accounts of the public school division of a locality may be target accounts. The amount of generating capacity of all generating facilities that are the subject of a pilot program are limited to (i) five megawatts if Appalachian Power is the pilot program utility, though the utility may increase the amount to up to 10 megawatts or (ii) 25 megawatts if Dominion Power is the pilot program utility. Such aggregated capacities of the generation facilities that are the subject of a pilot program constitute a portion of the existing limit of the utility's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast of the previous year that is available to municipal customer-generators, eligible customer-generators, eligible agricultural customer-generators, and small agricultural generators in the utility's service area. The duration of the pilot program is six years. This bill is identical to

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2792ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19106229D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Presented and ordered printed 19104713D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House — 78–21 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 19–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 19104713D introduction
• 2019-01-18 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2019-01-22 Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2019-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 19106229D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2792H1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House (78-Y 21-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled
• 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
• 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4b2fa08-a951-4a97-b184-456840196fa8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).