This Amendment requires that electric suppliers adopt the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Model Interconnection Procedures within 12 months of the Procedures' publishing date.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Burns
Last action: 2026-03-19
Official status: Passed 3/19/26
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Electric Suppliers Must Follow Renewable Energy Rules

This amendment requires electric suppliers to use specific rules for connecting renewable energy sources within a year of the rules being published.

What This Bill Does

Requires electric suppliers to follow the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Model Interconnection Procedures.
Allows deviations from these procedures only if approved by the utility’s regulatory body in a formal proceeding.
Enables utility regulating authorities to set and enforce timelines for interconnection applications and project milestones.
Permits commission-regulated utilities to recover costs related to implementing these rules, including technology upgrades and customer investments.

Who It Names or Affects

Electric suppliers
Utility regulatory bodies

Terms To Know

Interconnection Procedures: Rules that electric suppliers must follow when connecting renewable energy sources to the grid.
Regulatory body: An agency responsible for overseeing and regulating utilities, ensuring they comply with laws and regulations.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if electric suppliers do not follow the procedures.
It is unclear how these rules will affect smaller or municipal electric companies that are not commission-regulated.

Bill History

2026-03-19 Delaware General Assembly
Passed In House by Voice Vote
2026-03-12 Delaware General Assembly
Introduced and Placed With Bill

Official Summary Text

This Amendment requires that electric suppliers adopt the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Model Interconnection Procedures within 12 months of the Procedures' publishing date. It further provides that any deviation from the Procedures must be affirmatively approved by the utility's regulatory body in a formal proceeding. The utility regulating authority may also establish, monitor, and enforce mandatory interconnection application processing timelines and project milestones within its interconnection rules. Commission-regulated electric utilities may recover implementation costs including administrative fees, back-office technology upgrades, and customer system investments necessary to decrease overall project execution timelines.

Current Bill Text

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Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Burns

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1

HOUSE BILL NO. 269

AMEND House Bill No. 269 by deleting lines 12 through 18 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

“tariffs and operating guidelines. An electric

supplier’s interconnection rules must be developed by using as a guide

supplier must adopt

the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s Model Interconnection

Rules and best practices identified by the U.S. Department of Energy. Municipal electric companies shall establish interconnection rules no later than July 24, 2008.

Procedures (Procedures) within 12 months of the Procedures’ latest publishing date. Any deviation from the Procedures must be affirmatively approved by the utility’s regulatory body in a formal proceeding. The utility regulating authority may establish, monitor, and enforce mandatory interconnection application processing timelines and project milestones within its interconnection rules, including commensurate consequences for failure by an electric supplier to meet such deadlines, unless delays are demonstrably attributable to the applicant.

An electric supplier may not require eligible net-metering customers who meet all applicable safety and performance standards to install excessive controls, perform or pay for unnecessary tests, or purchase excessive liability insurance.

Commission-regulated electric utilities may recover prudently incurred implementation costs including administrative fees, back-office technology upgrades, and customer system investments necessary to decrease overall project execution timelines and ensure projects are brought online within the prescribed timelines.

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SYNOPSIS

This Amendment requires that electric suppliers adopt the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Model Interconnection Procedures within 12 months of the Procedures' publishing date. It further provides that any deviation from the Procedures must be affirmatively approved by the utility's regulatory body in a formal proceeding. The utility regulating authority may also establish, monitor, and enforce mandatory interconnection application processing timelines and project milestones within its interconnection rules. Commission-regulated electric utilities may recover implementation costs including administrative fees, back-office technology upgrades, and customer system investments necessary to decrease overall project execution timelines.