Thank you State Delegate Terry Kilgore for protecting ratepayers. Terry is fighting for cheaper, cleaner, and safer energy. That’s why Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future has named Terry Kilgore a Conservative Clean Energy Champion.

• State Delegate Terry Kilgore is fighting to lower utility rates for Virginia residents.

• Terry Kilgore is working to develop commonsense energy solutions for Virginia that advance the state’s clean energy economy, create jobs, and attract investment.

• State Delegate Kilgore is paving the way for our nation’s clean energy future by advancing solutions that emphasize clean, renewable energy and energy waste reduction.

• As Chairman of the House Committee on Commerce & Labor, Delegate Terry Kilgore has been a champion for clean energy, emphasizing the strong economic and security benefits of diversifying Virginia’s energy portfolio. Kilgore was the chief sponsor of The Grid Transformation and Security Act of 2018, which seeks to increase energy waste reduction measures, improve grid resiliency, expand market access for affordable solar and wind energy, and invest in innovative technologies like battery storage and a smart grid.

• State Delegate Terry Kilgore is a strong conservative leader and has been a vocal supporter of conservative energy policy solutions that emphasize clean, renewable energy. It’s policies like these that spark true innovation, create jobs, protect ratepayers and grow the economy in states like Virginia. For that, Terry Kilgore is a Conservative Clean Energy Champion.

Delegate Kilgore Voted For:

HB 1558 – The Grid Transformation & Security Act – The Grid Transformation and Security Act of 2018 makes several consequential policy changes that will lead to: substantive energy efficiency investments, including effectively getting rid of the RIM test when approving efficiency programs, major extension of the EnergyShare Program for low-income families and those on fixed incomes in Virginia; widespread adoption of affordable solar and wind energy, including a tenfold increase to 5,000 megawatts in solar energy – which is equal to powering more than a million households at peak generation; a framework for research and investments in battery storage, and a smart grid that will be needed to accommodate renewables.

SB 573 – Green job creation tax credit – Extends through 2020 the sunset date for the green job creation tax credit. The green job tax credit was originally created at the recommendation of Governor Bob McDonnell in 2010.

HB 509 – Comprehensive plan; solar facilities – Provides that a solar facility subject to provisions requiring the facility to be substantially in accord with a locality’s comprehensive plan shall be deemed to be substantially in accord with the comprehensive plan if (i) such proposed solar facility is located in a zoning district that allows such solar facilities by right or (ii) such proposed solar facility is designed to serve the electricity or thermal needs of the property upon which such facility is located.

HB 508 – Local regulation of solar facilities – Provides that a property owner may install a solar facility on the roof of a building to serve the electricity of that building, provided that such installation is in compliance with any height and setback requirements, as well as any provisions pertaining to any local historic or architectural preservation district.

HB 2547- Net Metering, Electric Cooperatives - The legislation lifts a net metering cap for cooperatives and allows their customers to install larger solar projects. The law raises the net metering cap to a cumulative total of 7% among a co-op’s mix of residential, nonprofit and commercial members. The legislation also allows residential customers within co-op territory to install enough solar to meet 125 percent of their energy needs. The previous limit was 100%.

HB 2008 - Energy career cluster. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with representatives from pertinent industries such as renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear energy, coal, and oil, to establish an energy career cluster. The bill requires the Department of Education to base the knowledge and skill sets contained in such energy career cluster on the energy industry competency and credential models developed by the Center for Energy Workforce Development in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor.

HB 2192 - Modernization of public school buildings and facilities. Provides that public school buildings and facilities be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to generate more electricity than consumed, and allows local school boards to enter into leases with private developers to achieve that goal. The bill also provides that private developers that contract with local school boards to modernize public school buildings and facilities may receive financing from the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority.

HB 2477 - Electric utilities; licensed retail suppliers. Provides that customers of an incumbent electric utility that is required to obtain capacity for all load and expected load growth in its service area shall, if they that purchase energy from a supplier licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth, continue to pay their incumbent electric utility for the non-fuel generation capacity and transmission related costs incurred by the incumbent electric utility in order to meet such customers' capacity obligations. The measure reduces the advance written notice period applicable to such customers from five years to three years.

HB 2747 - Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority. Creates the Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority (the Authority) to promote opportunities for energy development in Southwest Virginia, to create jobs and economic activity in Southwest Virginia consistent with the Virginia Energy Plan, and to position Southwest Virginia and the Commonwealth as a leader in energy workforce and energy technology research and development.

HB 2789 - Direct the establishment of energy conservation measures providing incentives for the development of electric energy delivered from sunlight. Requires Dominion Power and Appalachian Power Company to a seek approval for a three-year program of energy conservation measures providing incentives to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals in an amount not less than $25 million in the aggregate for the installation of measures that reduce residential heating and cooling costs and enhance the health and safety of residents. The measure also requires the utilities to develop a program of energy conservation measures providing incentives, open to low income, elderly and disabled individuals who also participate in the above-described incentive program, in an amount not to exceed $25 million in the aggregate, for the installation of equipment to develop electric energy derived from sunlight. The measure provides that the utilities may provide such incentives directly to customers or to organizations that assist low income, elderly and disabled individuals. The measure directs that in developing such incentive programs, each utility shall give consideration to low income, elderly and disabled persons residing in housing that a redevelopment and housing authority owns or controls.

SB 1091 - Site plan approval; decommissioning certified solar energy equipment, facilities, or devices. Requires a locality, as part of the local legislative approval process or as a condition of approval of a site plan, to require an owner, lessee, or developer of real property to enter into a written agreement to decommission solar energy equipment, facilities, or devices upon certain terms and conditions, including right of entry by the locality and financial assurance.

SB 1662 - Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Provides that any determination by the State Corporation Commission that an energy efficiency program is not in the public interest shall include with its final order the work product and analysis conducted by the staff of the Commission in making that determination.

HB 2293 - Electric utilities; stakeholder process for energy efficiency programs. Requires the independent monitor chosen to facilitate the energy efficiency stakeholder process established for the purpose of providing input and feedback on the development of electric utilities' energy efficiency programs to convene meetings of the participants not less frequently than twice each calendar year between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2028.

HB 2741- Clean Energy Advisory Board; low-to-moderate income solar loan and rebate pilot program and fund. Establishes the Clean Energy Advisory Board (the Board) as an advisory board in the executive branch of government for the purpose of establishing a pilot program for disbursing loans or rebates for the installation of solar energy infrastructure in low-income and moderate-income households.

Thank you Terry Kilgore

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