Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2528: Electric utilities; customer energy choice, customer return to service, subscription cap and queue.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 2528 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Electric utilities; customer energy choice, customer return to service, subscription cap and queue. Primary sponsor: Alfonso Lopez (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (January 30, 2025): Tabled in Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Electric utilities; customer energy choice; customer return to service; subscription cap and queue. Removes certain restrictions on the ability of individual retail customers of electric energy within the Commonwealth, regardless of customer class, to purchase electric energy matched 100 percent by renewable energy certificates from any supplier of electric energy licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. The bill requires a licensed supplier to match a percentage of each retail electric customer's annual load with renewable energy certificates from within the PJM transmission region. The bill decreases from five years to six months the required written notice period for certain electric energy customers to return to service by an incumbent electric utility after purchasing electric energy from other suppliers. The bill also directs the Commission, by October 1, 2026, to establish a subscription cap allowance for certain utility customers seeking to participate in purchasing electric energy from a licensed supplier. The Commission is required to review the subscription cap allowance every two years starting on January 1, 2028, and electric utilities are required to file their subscription queues with the Commission by January 15, 2027, and annually thereafter. The bill contains an exception to the subscription cap allowance for customers seeking to expand usage at an existing or new facility. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, unless the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated pursuant to the bill specify a commencement date.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfonso Lopez | Primary sponsor | Democratic | House | 3 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Tabled in Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N)
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- Fiscal Impact Statement from State Corporation Commission (HB2528)
- Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
- Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104501D