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119-hr-10738119th CongressWALLET

Affordable Power for Host Communities Act

Sponsored By: Representative Gallagher, James [R-CA-1]

Introduced

Summary

A 20% discounted electricity rate for customers in counties that host qualifying generation facilities. This bill would add a new standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act that would require utilities to offer a 20 percent discount to a defined class of consumers served in a "host county" compared with the same class outside that county.

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  • Residents in host counties would pay 20% less for electricity when they fall into the affected customer class and are served by the utility covering the host county.
  • State regulatory authorities and nonregulated electric utilities would have to start considering the new standard within 1 year and complete their determinations within 2 years of enactment.
  • A county counts as a "host county" only if it contains a "covered generation facility" with at least 5 megawatts nameplate capacity that imposes operational, environmental, or infrastructure burdens. The definition lists hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, solar, and wind facilities and related public infrastructure.
  • States that already implemented or had active proceedings on a comparable discount during the 3 years before enactment would be exempt from the new timing requirements.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

20% electricity discount for host counties

If enacted, electric customers in a host county would pay a rate 20% below the rate for the same customer class outside that county. A host county would be a county that contains a covered generation facility. A covered facility would have to generate electricity delivered to local distribution and sold, have a nameplate capacity of at least 5 megawatts, and impose operational, environmental, or infrastructure burdens on the county. Covered facilities would include hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, solar, and wind, and related Federal or State infrastructure. Your dollar savings would depend on the outside-county rate and how much electricity you use.

State review deadlines for host-county rates

If enacted, each State regulator and each nonregulated electric utility would have to start considering the host-county 20% discount or set a hearing within 1 year of enactment of paragraph (22). They would have to finish consideration and make a determination within 2 years of that enactment. States would be exempt from those deadlines if, during the three years before enactment, the state had already implemented the standard or a comparable one, held a proceeding on it, or the state legislature had voted on it. The bill would also make certain timing references count from the enactment date of paragraph (22).

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Gallagher, James [R-CA-1]

CA • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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