HB 868

Abstract

Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed competitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbent electric utility. Currently, such customers may purchase electric power from such suppliers, other than an incumbent electric utility that is not the incumbent electric utility serving the exclusive territory in which the customer is located, only if their incumbent electric utility does not offer an approved tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy. The measure also provides that a cooperative utility customer eligible to take service under a tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy is prohibited from purchasing electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from a licensed supplier, except such customer is authorized to continue purchasing renewable energy pursuant to the terms of a power purchase agreement in effect on the date the cooperative serving it filed with the Commission such tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy for the duration of such agreement. The provisions of the bill will not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021 Session of the General Assembly.

Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed competitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbent electric utility. Currently such customers may purchase electric power from such suppliers, other than an incumbent electric utility that is not the incumbent electric utility serving the exclusive territory in which the customer is located, only if their incumbent electric utility does not offer an approved tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy. The measure also provides that a cooperative utility customer eligible to take service under a tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy is prohibited from purchasing electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from a licensed supplier, except such customer is authorized to continue purchasing renewable energy pursuant to the terms of a power purchase agreement in effect on the date the cooperative serving it filed with the Commission such tariff for electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy for the duration of such agreement.

Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electricenergy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensedcompetitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbentelectric utility. Currently such customers may purchase electricpower from such suppliers, other than an incumbent electric utilitythat is not the incumbent electric utility serving the exclusiveterritory in which the customer is located, only if their incumbentelectric utility does not offer an approved tariff for electric energyprovided 100 percent from renewable energy. The measure also eliminatesthe authority of retail customers to continue purchasing renewableenergy pursuant to the terms of a power purchase agreement in effecton the date there is filed with the Commission a tariff for the incumbentelectric utility that serves the exclusive service territory in whichthe customer is located to offer electric energy provided 100 percentfrom renewable energy, for the duration of such agreement.