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Bill Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements. Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily customers of investor-owned utilities, other than American Electric Power, to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility; (ii) raises the cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory from one percent to six percent, five percent of which is available to all customers and one percent of which is available only to low-income utility customers; (iii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to three megawatts; (iv) allows certain localities to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings, (v) increases the cap on the capacity of generation from facilities from the customer's expected annual energy consumption to 150 percent of such amount for customers in Dominion Energy Virginia's service territory; (vi) prohibits standby charges for any residential customer-generator or agricultural customer-generator of an investor-owned utility other than Dominion Energy Virginia; and (vii) increases the cap on third party power purchase agreements to 500 megawatts for jurisdictional customers and 500 megawatts for nonjurisdictional customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and to 40 megawatts for customers of American Electric Power. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy. This bill is identical to HB 572, HB 1647, and SB 710. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 HB 1184 Virginia HB 1184 (2020)
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Virginia HB 1184 (2020) — Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily customers of investor-owned utilities, other than American Electric Power, to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility; (ii) raises the cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service territory from one percent to six percent, five percent of which is available to all customers and one percent of which is available only to low-income utility customers; (iii) raises the cap for net-metered nonresidential generation facilities from one megawatt to three megawatts; (iv) allows certain localities to install solar or wind facilities of up to five megawatts on government-owned property and use the electricity for government-owned buildings, (v) increases the cap on the capacity of generation from facilities from the customer's expected annual energy consumption to 150 percent of such amount for customers in Dominion Energy Virginia's service territory; (vi) prohibits standby charges for any residential customer-generator or agricultural customer-generator of an investor-owned utility other than Dominion Energy Virginia; and (vii) increases the cap on third party power purchase agreements to 500 megawatts for jurisdictional customers and 500 megawatts for nonjurisdictional customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and to 40 megawatts for customers of American Electric Power. The measure also amends the Commonwealth Energy Policy to include provisions supporting distributed generation of renewable energy. This bill is identical to HB 572, HB 1647, and SB 710.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1189) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1184ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1184S1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Impact statement from SCC (HB1184) (committee substitute) — source
  5. Impact statement from SCC (HB1184H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) — 2416 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 41-N) — 5241 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N) — 5544 (pass) · lower
  • Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 00 (fail) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 3-N) — 63 (pass) · lower
  • Senate insisted on substitute (23-Y 17-N) — 2317 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Labor and Commerce (13-Y 9-N) — 139 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N) — 097 (fail) · lower
  • Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (11-Y 2-N) — 112 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (25-Y 14-N) — 2514 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
  • Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104922D introduction
  • 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-01-15 Impact statement from SCC (HB1184)
  • 2020-01-22 Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 2020-01-22 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
  • 2020-01-28 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
  • 2020-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 3-N)
  • 2020-02-06 Reported from Labor and Commerce (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N)
  • 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2020-02-18 Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-18 Rereferred to Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (11-Y 2-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-24 Committee substitute printed 20109062D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-27 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-02-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20109062D-S1
  • 2020-02-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1184S1
  • 2020-02-27 Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) passage
  • 2020-03-02 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-03-02 Impact statement from SCC (HB1184S1)
  • 2020-03-02 Senate substitute rejected by House 20109062D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
  • 2020-03-02 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N)
  • 2020-03-03 Senate insisted on substitute (23-Y 17-N)
  • 2020-03-03 Senate requested conference committee
  • 2020-03-04 House acceded to request
  • 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
  • 2020-03-07 Conference substitute printed 20109937D-H1
  • 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 41-N)
  • 2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 41-N)
  • 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (25-Y 14-N)
  • 2020-03-13 Impact statement from SCC (HB1184H1)
  • 2020-03-18 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-20 Impact statement from SCC (HB1184ER)
  • 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
  • 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1189 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70e9d5a7-1054-407b-8892-b4a4f8cc216a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).