A Bill to Amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by Adding Article 25 to Chapter 27, Title 58 So as to Enact the "South Carolina Electric Consumer Bill of Rights Act" to Define Categories of Costs to Be Collected Through Residential Customer Charges, to Limit Residential Customer Charges to Capture Only Customer-related Costs, and to Require Each Electrical Utility to Include a Line Item on Customer Bill Statements to Show the Percentage of Retail Rates Attributable to Deferred Recovery of the Cost of the Nuclear Generating Station Abandoned During Construction Pursuant to Section 58-33-225; by Adding Chapter 42 to Title 58 So as to Establish Statewide Standards Providing Customers with the Ability to Install and Utilize Onsite Distributed Energy Sources, to Define Relevant Terms, to Establish Statewide Interconnection Standards, to Prohibit Utilities from Preventing Construction Under Certain Conditions, to Provide the Statewide Net Metering Standards, to Allow Settlement-based Cost Recovery for Investor-owned Utilities for Customer-generators but to Prohibit Cost Recovery of Lost Revenues Within the Statewide Net Metering Program, to Exempt Industrial Customers Who Adopt Onsite Distributed Energy Resources from Incremental Distributed Energy Resource Program Costs, to Provide That the Owner of an Onsite Distributed Energy Resource Who Has Registered with the Office of Regulatory Staff as a Lessor of These Facilities May Not Be Regulated as a Public Utility for Offering a Service That Provides Onsite Generation to Customer-generators Through a Power Purchase Agreement, to Require Each Electrical Utility to Provide a Disaster Readiness Incentive to Encourage the Installation of Solar and Storage Combination Onsite Distributed Energy Resources Facilities on the Residences of First Responders and Designated Public Shelters; by Adding Section 27-1-80 So as to Prohibit Discrimination Against Use of Onsite Distributed Energy Resources Through Restrictive Coven

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

SC H 4421 · H · 2017-2018