Virginia's Labor and Commerce Subcommittee #3 advanced six major energy bills — covering appliance efficiency backstops, surplus grid interconnection, transmission line siting, underground transmission pilots, uneconomic utility dispatch, and expanded energy storage targets — while carrying over a clean energy promotion program to 2027. The most contested items were the energy storage bill (HB 895) and the underground transmission pilot (HB 1487), both of which drew industry cost concerns but passed with substitute language.
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Mr. Bassi warned that adopting a national manufacturing standard prospectively based on something that has not yet happened would be a first in his 25 years and a dangerous trend, arguing that state deviation from national standards would drive up prices. Delegate Maldonado countered that the bill changes nothing — people already follow current federal regulations — and does not create new standards.
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“According to Rocky Mountain Institute's analysis, Virginia ratepayers have overpaid approximately $1.4 billion since 2015 because of uneconomic dispatch. That's 1.15 billion in Dominion customer territory and $309 million in Appalachian Power customer territory, which is an average of 118 million per year. Of that $1.15 billion that we've overpaid, 680 million of that occurred just between January of 2023 and September of 2025, which tells us that this is an exacerbating issue in more recent years.”
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Sign in to subscribeMagic. Welcome to the penultimate meeting of sub 3. I don't know precisely when, but sometime soon the pizza will be arriving. So let me. First off, for those of you in the audience, you can thank Patrick Cushing of Fall Line. He is buying tonight's pizza for the audience. Just in case there's anyone from the ethics committees in the room. He's not buying it for us. That will be. That's being separately procured. So anyway, when it comes, obviously, please feel free, but try to be as. Try not to be disruptive. Just sneak up there rather than. Don't make a lot of noise. Okay, we're ready to go. I sometimes forget to do this. Why don't we take the role, Mr. Clerk? Absolutely, sir. Okay. Looks like we have a quorum. Thank you very much. One bit of housekeeping, HB 1075 from Douglas Rasul will go by for the day. Can I have a motion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That bill goes by for the day. I'm sure you're all looking ahead. The docket for next Tuesday looks manageable. It really does, depending on when we get started, of course, but. So we made one…
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