HB 1065

Electric utilities; surplus interconnection service sites. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct and publish a comprehensive assessment of available surplus interconnection service capacity across the electric distribution and transmission systems in the Commonwealth and to identify eligible sites, as defined in the bill. The bill directs Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy Virginia to conduct a request for proposals for the development of zero-carbon electricity or energy storage resources on such sites and to select a certain amount of proposals received in response to such request to submit to the Commission for approval. The bill permits an energy storage resource to charge directly from the electric distribution grid without additional interconnection or permitting requirements beyond those applicable to the incumbent utility or site, except that under the bill, no energy storage resource shall charge directly from any electric generating facility that emits carbon dioxide. Certain provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.