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Senate committee advances bill to boost rooftop and brownfield solar programs
Summary
Senate Bill 1040 would raise the distributed-solar carve-out in Virginia’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, increase the size limit for distributed resources, expand power purchase agreement availability and triple the brownfield carve-out; committee supporters called it a way to avoid impacts on farmland.
Senate Bill 1040, sponsored by Sen. Van Valkenburg, won committee approval after proponents said it would steer more solar to rooftops and previously developed sites and reduce pressure on farmland and forests.
The nut graf: The substitute for SB 1040 would raise the RPS distributed‑solar carve‑out from 1% to 5% by 2028 (with later setting by the SCC), increase the maximum size of a distributed resource from 1 megawatt to 3 megawatts, expand access to third‑party power purchase agreements, and raise a brownfield carve‑out from 200 megawatts to 600 megawatts.
Senator Van Valkenburg explained the bill’s purpose: the Clean Economy Act originally created a 1%…
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