Loading chat...

HI SB1154

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/7/2023

Primary Sponsor

Angus McKelvey

Click for details

Origin

Senate

2024 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes government agencies to wheel (transmit) electricity produced by their own renewable energy facilities to other government agencies over existing utility transmission lines.

  • Requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a docket to determine compensation rates for electric companies acting as transmitters and other terms to ensure wheeling serves the public interest.

  • Mandates consideration of workforce and community agreements with stakeholders potentially impacted by wheeling projects, and compliance with the Build America, Buy America Act if federal funding is used.

  • Excludes member-owned cooperatives from wheeling provisions and defines wheeling as transmitting electric power from one government agency's generation point to other government agencies' facilities over third-party utility lines.

  • Becomes effective July 1, 2050.

Legislative Description

Relating To Energy.

Public Utilities Commission

Last Action

Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.

12/11/2023

Committee Referrals

Consumer Protection & Commerce3/16/2023
Energy & Environmental Protection3/9/2023
Commerce and Consumer Protection2/17/2023
Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism1/27/2023

Full Bill Text

No bill text available