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Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1512: Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1512 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 23, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources. Primary sponsor: John Chilton McAuliff. Most recent recorded action (February 18, 2026): Left in Labor and Commerce.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Electric utilities; renewable energy standard eligible sources. Requires that, in order to qualify as renewable energy standard eligible sources under the renewable portfolio standard program, certain waste-to-energy resources, landfill gas-fired resources, and biomass-fired facilities be electric generating sources. Additionally, the bill requires, for waste-to-energy and landfill gas-fired resources to qualify, that such resources not use waste heat from fossil fuel combustion or credit thermal output or use the renewable thermal energy equivalent calculation to produce renewable energy certificates (RECs). Finally, the bill requires the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to revoke and invalidate RECs if the Commission finds them to have been inappropriately or erroneously produced, registered, sold, banked, or retired and requires utilities to procure and retire RECs to cover any amount revoked and invalidated.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
John Chilton McAuliffPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Labor and Commerce
  2. Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB1512)
  3. Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
  4. Presented and ordered printed 26105467D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source