PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Energy: establish a Federal energy efficiency resource standard for electricity and natural gas suppliers (see S. 1063), S2352 [22AP]

Electric power: provide for the safe and reliable interconnection of distributed resources and provide for the examination of the effects of net metering (see S. 1219), S2688 [6MY]

FERC: expand provisions for termination of electric utility mandatory purchase requirements from certain facilities (see S. 1037), S2351 [22AP]

Government regulations: establish and energy storage portfolio standard (see S. 1434), S3238 [21MY]

Power resources: assist States in adopting updated interconnection procedures and tariff schedules and standards for certain project power fees for combined heat and power (CHP) and waste heat to power (WHP) technologies (see S. 1202), S2687 [6MY]

——— facilitate the free market for distributed energy resources (see S. 1213), S2688 [6MY] (see S. 2003), S6434 [6AU]

Public utilities: expand electric rate-setting authority of States (see S. 1233), S2688 [6MY]

——— provide for consideration by State regulatory authorities and nonregulated electric utilities of whether subsidies should be provided for construction and operation of customer-side technology (see S. 2384), S8602 [10DE] (see H.R. 4232), H9270 [10DE]

Renewable energy: establish a Federal renewable electricity standard (see S. 1264), S2759 [11MY]

——— establish a Federal renewable electricity standard and a Federal energy efficiency resource standard for electricity and natural gas suppliers (see H.R. 3426), H5768 [29JY]

Solar energy: promote safe and reliable interconnection and net billing for community solar facilities (see S. 1723), S4952 [9JY]

Remarks in House

Solar energy: promote safe and reliable interconnection and net billing for community solar facilities, H8958 [2DE]

Remarks in Senate

Public utilities: expand electric rate-setting authority of States (S. 1233), S2691 [6MY]

Texts of

S. 1233, PURPA’s Legislative Upgrade to State Authority (PURPA PLUS) Act, S2692 [6MY]