Labor and Commerce Subcommittee #3 advanced a full slate of clean energy and utility bills, including contested measures to add nuclear to Virginia's accelerated clean energy buyers program and to extend Dominion's undergrounding program alongside low-income energy assistance — the latter drawing sharp opposition from consumer and manufacturer advocates who argued the pairing obscured billions in ratepayer costs.
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Brad Vassi (Virginia Manufacturers Association) argued the undergrounding provision is unrelated to weatherization, largely cosmetic, would spread billions in costs to all ratepayers, and invoked a 2023 agreement to let the SCC decide infrastructure questions in litigated proceedings rather than through legislation. Laura Gonzalez (Clean Virginia) similarly argued the undergrounding debate should stand on its own merits. Delegate Levier Bolling countered that the bill uses shareholder dollars and that undergrounding has saved power during outages, and Dominion's Chrissy Noonan stated the two were negotiated together as part of the GTSA.
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“I believe that it's good enough to pass now, but I believe that it can be made better.”
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Sign in to subscribeAll right, ladies and gentlemen, if we could get started at4.52. Thank you all for being here so late in the day. Thank you in advance for your patience. At the risk of jinxing us, I am hopeful that we will be able to move fairly quickly through this and that set another sub 3 record. Let's do some administrative things off the bat. We have two bills that will go by for the day. They are HB921 from Delegate Lopez and HB1002 from Delegate Tran. Can I have a motion? Second. I have a motion properly made and properly seconded to take H. HB 921 and 1002. Bye for the day. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Those bills are bye for the day. We have a second voice vote. We are going to incorporate Delegate Kilgore's HB634 into Delegate Levir Bolling's 1393. That's a voice vote. Can I have a motion? I have a motion properly seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Those two bills, 634 is now part of 1393. Now, last, and this is a recorded vote at the request of the patron, we are going to strike or recommend that the full…
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