Natural Gas
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Eminent domain; just compensation for entry onto property. [HB-2124]
Eminent domain; just compensation for entry onto property. Provides that a condemnor or a natural gas company with the right of entry without the permission of the landowner must provide just compensation to the landowner for such entry. The bill provides that the presumptive amount of such just compensation is $100, which shall be paid to the landowner in advance of the entry onto the property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Bell
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Utah 2017 General Session
Hydrogen Fuel Production Incentives [HB-405]
Hydrogen Fuel Production Incentives
Sponsored by: Sen. Curtis Bramble
Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/22/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. [HB-1703]
Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to meet incremental annual energy efficiency goals. Electric utilities are required to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures to achieve the goal of two percent savings by 2032 and thereafter, with interim goals that start at 0.25 percent for 2018-2019 and increase in biennial increments of 0.25 percent until 2032. Gas utilities are required to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Sullivan
Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/08/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Natural gas utilities; qualified projects, investments in eligible infrastructure. [HB-1671]
Qualified projects of natural gas utilities. Exempts any natural gas utility serving fewer than 2,000 residential customers and fewer than 350 commercial and industrial customers in the year in which the utility makes an investment for qualifying projects from the provision that limits the amount of investment that a natural gas utility may make in qualifying projects to one percent of its net plant investment that was used in establishing base rates in its most recent rate case. The existing exemption to the one percent cap was enacted in 2013
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Morefield
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0780) on 04/05/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Natural gas companies; right of entry. [HB-1438]
Natural gas companies; right of entry. Requires that a natural gas company's notice to the owner of property of the company's intent to enter upon the property set forth the "specific" date of the intended entry. Currently, a company's notice of intent to enter is required to set forth the date of the intended entry.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Stricken From Docket By Commerce And Labor By Voice Vote on 01/26/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test. [HB-575]
Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test. Defines the "total resource cost test" as a test to determine if the benefit-cost ratio of a proposed energy efficiency program or measure is greater than one. The measure defines "benefit-cost ratio" as the ratio of the net present value of the total benefits of a program or measure, including savings and non-energy benefits, to the net present value of the total incremental costs of implementing that program or measure as calculated over the lifetime of the measures implemented thereunder.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals established, report. [HB-576]
Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to meet incremental annual energy efficiency goals. Electric utilities are required to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures to achieve the goal of two percent savings by 2031 and thereafter, with interim goals that start at 0.25 percent for 2017-2018 and increase in biennial increments of 0.25
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/01/2016