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Senate bill to enable PPAs for advanced nuclear and change net-metering draws mixed response, lawmakers say conference needed
Summary
Senate Bill 447 would define advanced nuclear resources, allow PPAs for utilities and DOE, and amend net-metering/group metering rules; sponsors urged committee-of-conference work after the Senate and House reached different versions, while DOE and industry raised technical and market concerns.
Senate Bill 447 would add definitions and statutory authority allowing electric distribution utilities — and in some formulations the Department of Energy — to solicit multi-year power purchase agreements for advanced nuclear and other resources, and contains provisions that would change the state’s net-metering and community-solar rules.
Chairman Vos summarized the bill’s long history in committee: it merges features of prior House and Senate proposals,…
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