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Virginia Legislation Pushes To Expand Retail Choice
Electric utilities; customer energy choice; notice required for customer return to service.
Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any supplier of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. The bill also decreases the required written notice period from five years to six months for certain electric energy customers to return to service by Dominion Energy Virginia after purchasing electric energy from other suppliers.
Introduced by: Jeremy S. McPike
As reported previously, SB591 includes the following provisions:
- Reduces from 5 MW to 1 MW the size threshold above which a customer is allowed to shop for competitive supply
- Reduces from 5 MW to 1 MW the aggregation size threshold that allows an aggregation of customers to shop for competitive supply
- Eliminates the requirement that aggregations for competitive supply must seek SCC approval to shop
- Allows all customers to shop for a 100% renewable plan, regardless of the presence of any utility green tariff available to the customer (removing the current provisions that only allows all customers to shop for 100% renewable energy if a statute-compliant green plan is not offered by the utility)
- The bill also decreases the required written notice period from five years to six months for certain electric energy customers to return to service by Dominion Energy Virginia after purchasing electric energy from other suppliers.
01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101613D pdf | impact statement
