Virginia House Bill 74: Electric utilities; recovery of development costs associated with small modular reactor.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Electric utilities; recovery of development costs associated with small modular reactor. Permits the State Corporation Commission to impose, as part of a final order approving cost recovery for Dominion Energy for project development of a small modular reactor (SMR), a deadline to either (i) place the SMR into commercial operation or (ii) refund all SMR project development costs recovered from customers. Current law allows the Commission to place such a deadline on either (a) placing the SMR into commercial operation or (b) selling the permitted site and returning the proceeds of such sale to customers.

Latest action

Left in Labor and Commerce (2026-02-18)

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