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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 1184, and SB 710.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

HB 1647

Virginia HB 1647 (2020)

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Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones

2020-01-16

2020-04-22

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ocd-bill/e502ef38-a8ea-4447-882f-b3f2817995f5

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1647

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2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

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Virginia HB 1647 (2020) — Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1239) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1647ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1647H1 (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1647S1 (committee substitute) — source
HB1647H2 (committee substitute) — source
Reenrolled bill text (HB1647ER2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N) — 25–15 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
Amendments specific and severable (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N) — 6–4 (pass) · lower
Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N) — 24–16 (pass) · upper
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) — 54–45 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N 1-A) — 54–43 (pass) · lower
VOTE: (52-Y 39-N) — 51–39 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-16 Presented and ordered printed 20104629D introduction
2020-01-16 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-01-21 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
2020-01-22 Impact statement from SCC (HB1647)
2020-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
2020-02-06 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-06 Committee substitute printed 20107899D-H1 substitution
2020-02-06 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20107899D-H1
2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1647H1
2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
2020-02-12 Impact statement from SCC (HB1647H1)
2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
2020-02-24 Committee substitute printed 20109065D-S1 substitution
2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-27 Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20109065D-S1
2020-02-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1647S1
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 (HB1647S1)
2020-03-02 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20109065D-S1 (55-Y 43-N 1-A)
2020-03-02 VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 43-N 1-A)
2020-03-05 Enrolled
2020-03-05 Impact statement from SCC (HB1647ER)
2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-06 Signed by President
2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
2020-04-11 Governor's substitute printed 20110083D-H2
2020-04-22 Placed on Calendar
2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (52-Y 39-N)
2020-04-22 VOTE: (52-Y 39-N)
2020-04-22 Amendments specific and severable (40-Y 0-N)
2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N)
2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
2020-04-22 Reenrolled
2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (HB1647ER2)
2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1239 (effective 7/1/20) became-law

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e502ef38-a8ea-4447-882f-b3f2817995f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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