3.0.0 1723 2023-01-11T13:30:10Z 2023-01-11T13:30:10Z Senate S 2015-07-09 114 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-07-09T13:52:47Z American Energy Innovation Act 114 2089 S 2015-09-29 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 241. Related bill CRS 2015-07-09 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2015-07-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. N Energy Alternative and renewable resources Electric power generation and transmission Public utilities and utility rates State and local government operations Energy 00 2015-07-09 Introduced in Senate 2015-10-26T14:59:32Z Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require an electric utility, upon the request of an electric consumer, to make available to the consumer interconnection service and net billing service for a solar photovoltaic system allocating electricity to multiple individual electric consumers of the utility and meeting other specified characteristics (community solar facility).

Each state regulatory authority and each nonregulated utility must, within specified time limitations, commence consideration of and finally determine ratemaking standards.

The bill makes conforming technical amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Certain ratemaking time limitations set out in PURPA, and requirements in case of a failure to comply with them, shall not apply in the case of any electric utility in a state if before enactment of this Act:

  • the state has implemented the standard under this Act (or a comparable one) for the electric utility;
  • the state regulatory authority or the relevant nonregulated electric utility has conducted a proceeding to consider implementation of the standard (or a comparable one) for the electric utility; or
  • the state legislature has voted on the implementation of the standard (or a comparable one).
]]> Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015 Display Title Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote safe and reliable interconnection and net billing for community solar facilities. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1723is/xml/BILLS-114s1723is.xml 2015-07-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.