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Amended House/Senate Amendments Introduced Related to Surplus Interconnection Services
In Virginia HB1065 / SB508 substitute amendments introduced on a bill to direct certain electric utilities to undertake comprehensive assessments and establish pilot programs related to surplus interconnection service; report.
See HB1065 bill text here.
This bill is a companion to SB508.
See SB508 text here.
HB1065/SB508 directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct and publish a comprehensive assessment of available surplus interconnection service capacity across the electric distribution and transmission systems in the Commonwealth and to identify eligible sites, as defined in the bill.
The bill also directs Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy Virginia to conduct a request for proposals for the development of zero-carbon electricity or energy storage resources on such sites and to select a certain amount of proposals received in response to such request to submit to the Commission for approval.
The bill permits an energy storage resource to charge directly from the electric distribution grid without additional interconnection or permitting requirements beyond those applicable to the incumbent utility or site, except that under the bill, no energy storage resource shall charge directly from any electric generating facility that emits carbon dioxide.
Certain provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
