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Committee approves bill allowing industry to generate power behind the meter but not resell it
Summary
The House Utilities Committee voted 8-0 to advance House Bill 1374, which permits industrial customers to generate power for their own facilities off the grid but bars resale to the utility grid.
House Bill 1374 won committee approval Tuesday after a brief presentation and no substantive debate.
Representative John Bowles, presenting the bill to the House Utilities Committee, said, "This bill gives industry an option to provide power to their own facility behind the meter and off the grid and does not allow them to resell that power back to the grid." The committee recorded an 8-0 vote to report the bill out of committee.
The measure would let industrial customers install generation to serve only their own facility rather than sell excess output to the utility system. The bill text as presented to the committee included an explicit prohibition on resale; no exceptions or resale mechanisms were discussed during the hearing.
There were no questions on technical implementation, interconnection standards, or metering protocols during the committee discussion. Committee staff opened the vote after a motion to adopt the bill; the motion carried with an 8-0 tally.
The committee’s approval moves the bill to the next step in the legislative process. No amendments, fiscal notes, or agency implementation details were presented at the hearing, and the bill sponsor did not outline a timeline for next steps.
