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PRINTER'S NO. 1916
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1446
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY M. QUINN, TAYLOR, BRIGGS, V. BROWN, HARPER,
HENNESSEY, W. KELLER, KIM, KORTZ, MARSICO, MATZIE, NEILSON,
SOLOMON AND WATSON, JUNE 6, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 6, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Titles 66 (Public Utilities) and 74 (Transportation) of
the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in restructuring of
electric utility industry, providing for transportation
fueling infrastructure development; and, in turnpike, further
providing for definitions and providing for Statewide
electric vehicle charging and natural gas fueling networks.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 2816. Transportation fueling infrastructure development.
(a) Transportation electrification opportunity assessment.--
(1) Within 180 days of the effective date of this
section, the Governor or his designee shall establish a
Statewide goal for the expansion of transportation
electrification in this Commonwealth based upon a Statewide
transportation electrification opportunity assessment. The
goal shall be no less than a 50% expansion of annual
transportation electrification usage above current market
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forecasts for December 31, 2030, as of the effective date of
this section.
(2) The Governor or his designee may also establish
regional goals for each group of priority alternative
transportation infrastructure counties that are served, in
whole or in part, by an electric distribution company.
(b) Transportation electrification infrastructure regional
framework.--
(1) An electric distribution company serving one or more
priority alternative transportation infrastructure counties
shall contract with a qualifying independent transportation
analyst to develop a transportation electrification
infrastructure regional framework for those counties.
(2) The regional framework development process shall
include representatives from the Department of
Transportation, the Department of Environmental Protection,
county and municipal governments of the priority alternative
transportation infrastructure counties served by the electric
distribution company, public transit organizations and the
electric distribution company. Electric distribution
companies may include owners of vehicle fleets, experts in
transportation electrification charging infrastructure,
manufacturers of transportation electrification equipment and
other participants and stakeholders in the transportation
electrification market in the regional framework development
process.
(3) If multiple electric distribution companies serve a
single priority alternative transportation infrastructure
county, the electric distribution companies may elect to
collaborate on the selection of a qualifying independent
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transportation analyst for the county and allocate framework-
related costs proportionally based upon the number of
customers served in the county or by another mutually
agreeable method.
(4) A regional framework shall provide the following
information for the priority alternative transportation
infrastructure counties served by the electric distribution
company:
(i) The extent of plug-in electric vehicle
ownership, leasing and usage as well as projected
ownership, leasing and usage through December 31, 2030,
or 15 years after the effective date of this section,
whichever is later.
(ii) The extent of nonroad transportation
electrification usage and transportation electrification
charging infrastructure.
(iii) The additional transportation electrification
charging infrastructure that is reasonably necessary to
achieve the applicable regional goal established in
accordance with subsection (a) or, if no regional goal is
established, the Statewide goal established in accordance
with subsection (a) as applied to the priority
alternative transportation infrastructure counties served
by the electric distribution company.
(iv) Recommendations regarding the geographic
distribution and general specifications of transportation
electrification charging infrastructure identified in
accordance with subparagraph (iii), including
recommendations specific to the deployment of electric
vehicle charging infrastructure to serve low-income
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communities, multiunit residential buildings and
commercial workplaces.
(c) Transportation electrification infrastructure
development plan.--
(1) An electric distribution company serving one or more
priority alternative transportation infrastructure counties
shall file a transportation electrification infrastructure
development plan with the commission for approval within 18
months of the submission of a transportation electrification
infrastructure regional framework for the service territory.
The electric distribution company shall provide its
transportation electrification infrastructure regional
framework as part of the infrastructure development plan
filing.
(2) The infrastructure development plan shall describe
the company's proposal to achieve deployment of the
transportation electrification infrastructure reasonably
necessary to achieve the applicable regional goal established
in accordance with subsection (a) or, if no regional goal is
established, the Statewide goal established in accordance
with subsection (a) as applied to the priority alternative
transportation infrastructure counties served by the electric
distribution company. The infrastructure development plan
shall include strategies to optimize the use of the electric
distribution grid and provide opportunities for the reduction
of electric charging costs for customers, including time-of-
use rates.
(3) The infrastructure development plan may include
transportation electrification charging stations owned and
operated by the electric distribution company and third
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parties as well as customer incentives and customer education
programs related to installing or using transportation
electrification charging stations.
(4) (i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), transportation
electrification charging stations owned by the electric
distribution company and stations where distribution
system extension costs necessary for operation are
recovered as plan costs as provided in this section shall
be public access charging stations and include regional
interoperability capacity.
(ii) The commission shall exempt a station from the
public access requirement if the station is installed at
a multiunit residential building or commercial or
industrial workplace.
(d) Commission approval.--
(1) The commission shall conduct a public hearing on
each infrastructure development plan filed under subsection
(c) and approve or disapprove the plan within 180 days of
submission.
(2) If the commission does not approve a plan, the
commission shall describe in detail the reasons for
disapproval, and the electric distribution company shall have
60 days to file a revised plan to address the deficiencies
identified by the commission.
(3) A revised plan shall be approved or disapproved by
the commission within 60 days.
(e) Recovery.--An electric distribution company shall be
entitled to recover, in distribution rates established under
section 1308 (relating to voluntary changes in rates), all
reasonable and prudent costs incurred in the implementation of
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this section, including the costs of transportation
electrification infrastructure regional frameworks and
infrastructure development plans, transportation electrification
infrastructure, including annual depreciation costs and capital
costs over the life of transportation electrification charging
technology and required distribution system upgrades,
incentives, and education provided in accordance with an
infrastructure development plan approved under subsection (d).
(f) Additional regional frameworks and infrastructure
development plans.--
(1) An electric distribution company shall contract for
an update of the regional framework required under subsection
(b) every four years.
(2) The electric distribution company shall submit the
updated regional framework to the commission and file an
updated transportation electrification infrastructure
development plan within six months of the submission of the
updated regional framework.
(3) Additional regional frameworks and infrastructure
development plans shall be developed after December 31, 2026,
as directed by the commission.
(g) Voluntary development of transportation electrification
infrastructure development plans.--An electric distribution
company may file a transportation electrification infrastructure
development plan for commission approval in accordance with this
section for counties within the company's service territory that
do not qualify as priority alternative transportation
infrastructure counties.
(h) Natural gas transportation infrastructure assessment.--
(1) Within one year of the effective date of this
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section, the Governor or his designee shall complete a
Statewide assessment of current natural gas vehicle usage and
fueling infrastructure in this Commonwealth. The assessment
shall identify opportunities and goals for the expansion of
natural gas vehicle usage and fueling infrastructure in this
Commonwealth and make recommendations to the General Assembly
and the commission to support the expansion.
(2) The Governor or his designee shall transmit the
assessment and recommendations to the commission for posting
on the commission's publicly accessible Internet website.
(i) Penalties.--No electric distribution company shall be
subject to penalties for failure to meet the applicable goal
established under subsection (a) if the electric distribution
company is otherwise in compliance with its commission-approved
infrastructure development plan.
(j) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Electric vehicle charging station." A facility or equipment
designed to charge batteries within plug-in electric vehicles by
permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other
storage device in a plug-in electric vehicle.
"Plug-in electric vehicle." A motor vehicle that is powered
partly or solely by a battery that can be recharged by plugging
it into an external source of electricity and which motor
vehicle meets the applicable Federal and State safety standards
for on-road vehicles.
"Priority alternative transportation infrastructure county."
A county in this Commonwealth including all or part of a
metropolitan statistical area with a population of at least
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500,000 people as defined by the United States Census Bureau.
"Qualifying independent transportation analyst." A regional
planning commission established in accordance with the laws of
this Commonwealth or an independent analyst with demonstrated
expertise in transportation modeling and forecasting.
"Transportation electrification." The use of electricity
from external sources of electrical power, including the
electrical grid, for all or part of vehicles, vessels, trains,
boats or other equipment that are mobile sources of air
pollution and greenhouse gases and the related programs and
charging and propulsion infrastructure investments to enable and
encourage this use of electricity.
Section 2. Section 8102 of Title 74 is amended by adding
definitions to read:
§ 8102. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
* * *
"Electric vehicle charging station." As defined in 66
Pa.C.S. § 2816 (relating to transportation fueling
infrastructure development).
* * *
"Natural gas vehicle." A motor vehicle that is able to
operate on 100% compressed natural gas fuel.
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"Plug-in electric vehicle." As defined in 66 Pa.C.S. § 2816.
* * *
Section 3. Title 74 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 8124. Statewide electric vehicle charging and natural gas
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fueling networks.
(a) Creation of Statewide networks.--By January 31, 2020,
the department, in conjunction with the commission, shall
provide for at least two high-speed electric vehicle charging
stations and a natural gas fueling station accessible to the
public at each interstate highway rest area and welcome center.
The stations may be owned and operated by the commission, its
designee, or a private or nonprofit entity, including an
electric distribution company, with respect to electric vehicle
charging stations, or a natural gas distribution company, with
respect to compressed natural gas fueling stations, that
provides utility service to the applicable highway rest area or
welcome center.
(b) Cooperation.--The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
shall cooperate with the department and the commission in the
creation of Statewide electric vehicle charging and natural gas
fueling networks required by this section.
Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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