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HB921 in Virginia was reported favorably by Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
As reported previously, this bill would allow any nonresidential customer with an annual noncoincident peak (NCP) over 5MW in the most recent calendar year to receive service from a third-party supplier. It would remove the requirement that the customer’s NCP have not exceeded 1% of its utility’s load unless it was at least 90MW.
The bill would also reduce the required notice to return to utility service from five years to 18 months and set the stay upon return at 12 months.
HB1442 was introduced in Maryland legislature and was referred to the Environment and Transportation Committee on February 13, 2026.
This bill would modify the definition of “community choice aggregator” for the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Pilot Program to include residential electric customers served by cooperatives.
This bill would also expand the CCA Pilot Program to include all counties and Baltimore City instead of applying to Montgomery County only and would modify the membership of the Community Choice Energy Workgroup.
HB0345 would require the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) to solicit applications for new solar generation systems to be included in the RPS with the goal of increasing the solar generation capacity in Maryland by 4,000 MW, half of which would come from qualified distributed solar energy generating systems, and half of which would come from utility-scale solar energy generating systems.
The bill also would (1) require some ACPs to be paid into an escrow account rather than into the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund, and (2) require the MDPSC to direct utilities to procure SRECs.
