S. 1723: Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-07-09 · Energy · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Where it came from: introduced 2015-07-09 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015

Plain summary

Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015 This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require an electric utility, upon the request of an electric consumer, to make available to the consumer interconnection service and net billing service for a solar photovoltaic system allocating electricity to multiple individual electric consumers of the utility and meeting other specified characteristics (community solar facility). Each state regulatory authority and each nonregulated utility must, within specified time limitations, commence consideration of and finally determine ratemaking standards. The bill makes conforming technical amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Certain ratemaking time limitations set out in PURPA, and requirements in case of a failure to comply with them, shall not apply in the case of any electric utility in a state if before enactment of this Act: the state has implemented the standard under this Act (or a comparable one) for the electric utility; the state regulatory authority or the relevant nonregulated electric utility has conducted a proceeding to consider implementation of the standard (or a comparable one) for the electric utility; or the state legislature has voted on the implementation of the standard (or a comparable one).

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Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · 0 cosponsors

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Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] reported raising $1.7 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114s1723.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/s>

Record fed-us-cong114-s1723 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114