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Virginia Energy Plan; climate change pressing challenge.

It became law on Apr 11, 2020.

VA HB 714 · House Bill · 2020

Stage
Became law
Started in
House
Sponsors
+2
Latest action
Apr 11, 2020

Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Apr 11, 2020

What it does

Virginia Energy Plan; Commonwealth Energy Policy.Adopts findings that climate change is an urgent and pressing challenge forVirginia, that swift decarbonization and a transition to clean energy arerequired to meet the urgency of the challenge, and that the Commonwealth willbenefit from being a leader in deploying a low-carbon energy economy. Themeasure states that the Commonwealth recognizes that the following objectiveswill advance the health, welfare, and safety of Virginians: (i) establishingsufficient supply and delivery infrastructure to enable widespread deploymentof distributed energy resources; (ii) maximizing energy efficiency programs inorder to produce electricity cost savings…

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Where it goes next

Law in Virginia. Agencies now write the rules that carry it out, and courts can stay or strike it.

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