SB583 HFAT Shott 3-3

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Delegate Shott moves to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. For Senate Bill No. 583 -- “A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §24-2-1o, relating to creating a program to further the development of renewable energy resources and renewable energy facilities for solar energy by modifying the powers and duties of the Public Service Commission; providing for legislative findings and declarations; providing for definitions; providing for an application process and program for multiyear comprehensive renewable energy facilities for electric utilities, as defined, to plan, design, construct, purchase, own, and operate renewable energy-generating facilities, energy-storage resources, or both, under specified conditions, requirements, and limitations; providing that solar energy output is to be offered for sale or sold to residential, commercial, or industrial customers under renewable special contracts or renewable tariffs; providing for commission review and approval of said programs; allowing cost recovery for said programs; providing for requirements for said programs; providing for application requirements and contents in lieu of applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity; providing for public notice at the direction of the commission for anticipated rates and rate increases in interested counties; providing for a hearing on applications within 90 days of notice; defining circumstances when a hearing can be waived for lack of opposition; defining a time period of 150 days within which the commission shall issue a final order after the application date; requiring the commission to find the programs as in the public interest; requiring the commission, after notice and hearing, to approve applications and allow cost recovery for just and reasonable expenditures; establishing accounting methods, practices, rates of return, calculations, dates, and procedures relevant for cost recovery; requiring a utility to place in effect commission-approved rates that include cost recovery with certain defined items; defining “concurrent cost recovery”; requiring yearly application filings by the utility with the commission regarding cost recovery; defining when a project is to be considered used and useful; limiting cost recovery from any one customer to a maximum increase of $1000 per month; providing for siting certificates for exempt wholesale solar generation facilities to be processed in 150 days by the Public Service Commission; providing that no provision shall displace current levels of coal-fired generation capacity; and providing for a sunset date under conditions.”

Adopted

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