Underground electric distribution & transmission improvement; levy on utility customers by ordinance.Virginia · SB 651 · Last action Mar 14, 2026The bill requires any such agreement to provide that the locality pay to the utility its full additional costs of placing new or proposed electric distribution or transmission lines in the qualifying locality or relocating and converting that portion of a line located in the county underground rather than overhead, minus the net of relocation credits.The…Latest action: Failed to Pass from conferencePassed second
Solar energy; potential benefits of using for certain residential applications.Virginia · HB 198 · Last action Jan 24, 2024The bill requires the Department to report its findings and any recommendations tothe Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor, the SenateCommittee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, theHouse Committee on Commerce and Energy, and the House Committee onAgriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by December 1, 2024.Latest action: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)Session ended
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE); changes to financing program, definitions.Virginia · HB 1819 · Last action Mar 21, 2025The bill also (i) changes from two years to three years from a locality's issuance of a certificate of occupancy the time period within which a local C-PACE ordinance may allow submittal of a loan application and (ii) provides that a locality agrees to execute a locality agreement within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance that opts them into the…Latest action: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205)Enacted law
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