HB 724

Abstract

Electric cooperatives; net energy metering foragricultural customer-generators; report. Removes the July 1,2019, sunset provision of the net energy metering program for agricultural customer-generators interconnected with electric cooperatives. Thebill provides that, for the purposes of net metering, an agricultural customer-generator may aggregate energy generated on noncontiguousparcels of land if the parcels are (i) owned and operated by thesame agricultural customer-generator and (ii) located within a reasonabledistance of the customer's original interconnection site. The billdirects the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to convene a workgroupfor the purpose of assessing policy concerns related to the implementationof small-scale solar energy projects designed to meet the onsite energy needs of agricultural operations in the Commonwealth, and directsthe workgroup to report its recommendations to the House Committeeon Agriculture, Chesapeake & Natural Resources and the Senate Committeeon Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources by December 1, 2022.