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House Bill 2925 History
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H. B. 2925
(By Delegate Canterbury)
[Introduced March 13, 2013; referred to the
Committee on Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic
Development then Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §24-2D-2 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to alternative fuel initiatives;
and requiring the Public Service Commission to authorize
natural gas utility companies to invest in natural gas
compression equipment to be installed in residential property
for compressed natural gas fueling of automobiles but without
authority to make rates for compressed natural gas fueling of
these automobiles
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §24-2D-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2D. ALTERNATIVE FUEL INITIATIVES.
§24-2D-2. Incentives for use of alternative fuels in new
technologies; natural gas compression equipment installed in residential property for use as fuel
for automobiles; no rate-making authority.
(a) For purposes of this section, "alternative fuel vehicles"
shall mean means motor vehicles whose primary source of fuel is
natural gas, methanol, and/or electricity or a combination of these
fuels.
(b) Upon a finding that it is in the public interest of this
state to authorize the same, as provided in section one, article
one of this chapter, the Public Service Commission shall authorize
ratemaking allowances for public utilities to encourage the use of
alternative fuel in new demonstration technologies, including
alternative fuel vehicles, which provide incentives to encourage
investments in such these technologies.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the Public Service Commission shall authorize natural gas
utility companies to invest in natural gas compression equipment to
be installed in residential property for use as automobile fuel.
If natural gas is used for an automobile equipped to operate on
compressed natural gas,
the Public Service Commission
may not make
rates for the sale and use of compressed natural gas as an
alternative fuel.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Public
Service Commission to authorize natural gas utility companies to
invest in natural gas compression equipment to be installed in
residential property for compressed natural gas fueling of automobiles. It further provides that the Public Service
Commission may not make rates for the sale and use of compressed
natural gas as an alternative fuel
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.