HR 954 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Home Energy Generation Act

Introduced Mar 8, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Jay Inslee D-WA

Latest action · Mar 14, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.

Progress

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IntroducedMar 8, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Home Energy Generation Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to mandate that: (1) each retail electric supplier make available an electric energy meter capable of net metering to certain retail customers that have installed an energy generation unit intended for net metering; and (2) rates, charges, and contract terms for electric energy sales to customer-generators be the same as those that would be applicable if the customer-generator did not own or operate a qualified generation unit and use a net metering system.

Prescribes the manner in which such retail electric suppliers shall calculate the net energy measurement and billing for a customer using a net metering system.

Subjects qualified generation units and net metering systems to specified safety, performance, and reliability standards. Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to: (1) adopt additional control and testing requirements for customer-generators necessary to protect public safety and system reliability; and (2) prohibit additional charges by electric suppliers and local distribution systems for equipment or services for safety or performance additional to those necessary to meet such standards.

Sets a deadline for FERC to promulgate: (1) model standards for the physical connection between local distribution systems and qualified generation units and other specified electric generation units; and (2) regulations ensuring simplified contracts will be used for the interconnection of electric energy by electric energy transmission or distribution systems and generating facilities with a power production capacity of 250 kilowatts or less.

Cosponsors 48

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 8, 2001 to May 16, 2002; 14 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Brian Baird	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-IA	James A. Leach	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-CO	Mark Udall	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-MI	Vernon J. Ehlers	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WA	Adam Smith		Mar 29, 2001
D-NM	Tom Udall		Mar 29, 2001
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Apr 24, 2001
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Apr 24, 2001
D-OR	David Wu		Apr 24, 2001
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Apr 24, 2001
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Apr 24, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		Apr 24, 2001
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Apr 24, 2001
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 24, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Apr 24, 2001
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Apr 24, 2001
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Apr 24, 2001
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Apr 24, 2001
D-IN	Julia Carson		Apr 26, 2001
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Apr 26, 2001
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Apr 27, 2001
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman		Apr 27, 2001
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Apr 27, 2001
D-TX	Martin Frost		Apr 27, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner		May 1, 2001
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 1, 2001
R-WA	Doc Hastings		May 1, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 1, 2001
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		May 1, 2001
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 1, 2001
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 1, 2001
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		May 8, 2001
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		May 9, 2001
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		May 15, 2001
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		May 15, 2001
D-NC	David E. Price		Jun 19, 2001
D-MI	David E. Bonior		Apr 10, 2002
D-MA	John W. Olver		May 16, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 8, 2001
	Energy Subcommittee	Referred Mar 14, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 14, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Mar 8, 2001Introduced in House
Mar 8, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H911	Jay Inslee D-WA	Mar 14, 2001

Research

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Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 107-62	NATIONAL ELECTRICITY POLICY: BARRIERS TO COMPETITIVE GENERATION128 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jul 27, 2001
S. Hrg. 107-144	NATIONAL ENERGY ISSUES348 pages	Energy and Natural Resources Committee	Jul 19, 2001–Jul 26, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Federal Power Act to promote energy independence and self-sufficiency by providing for the use of net metering by certain small electric energy generation systems, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Home Energy Generation Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 8, 2001Introduced in House

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