Bill > HB2287

This bill aims to encourage the development of solar energy projects on formerly mined land in West Virginia and facilitate the procurement of solar energy and third-party co-generation energy supplies by large energy-intensive businesses and institutions located or planning to locate within the state. The key provisions include: allowing owners or operators of solar energy facilities on eligible land to sell electricity directly to large energy consumers without being regulated as a public utility; authorizing wheeling agreements for the transmission and distribution of electricity from eligible solar projects and third-party co-generation projects to large energy consumers; restricting electric utilities from passing on the costs of accommodating these arrangements to their retail ratepayers; and establishing a framework for the issuance of renewable energy certificates for the solar energy generated. The bill also grants the Public Service Commission the authority to promulgate rules to implement these provisions.

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