{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/56-589.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/56-589.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/56-589.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/56-589.html"}],"law_id":57502,"edition_id":1,"section_id":57502,"structure_id":13084,"section_number":"56-589","catch_line":"Municipal and state aggregation","history":"1999, c. 411; 2000, c. 991; 2003, c. 795; 2004, c. 827; 2007, cc. 888, 933.","full_text":"A\n\nSubject to the provisions of subdivision A 3 of \u00a7 56-577, counties, cities, and towns (hereafter municipalities) and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth may, at their election and upon authorization by majority votes of their governing bodies, aggregate electrical energy and demand requirements for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electrical energy requirements from any licensed supplier within this Commonwealth, as follows:1\n\nAny municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers within its boundaries on an opt-in or opt-out basis.2\n\nAny municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588.3\n\nTwo or more municipalities or other political subdivisions within the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588 when such municipalities or other political subdivisions are acting jointly to negotiate or arrange for themselves agreements for their energy needs directly with licensed suppliers or aggregators.\n\t\t\t\tNothing in this subsection shall prohibit the Commission’s development and implementation of pilot programs for opt-in, opt-out, or any other type of municipal aggregation, as provided in § 56-577.B\n\nThe Commonwealth, at its election, may aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities, and any other government operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electricity from any licensed supplier within the Commonwealth. Aggregation pursuant to this subsection shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588.C\n\nNothing in this section shall preclude municipalities from aggregating the electric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of negotiating rates and terms, and conditions of service from the electric utility certificated by the Commission to serve the territory in which such buildings, facilities and operations are located, provided, however, that no such electric energy load shall be aggregated for this purpose unless all such buildings, facilities and operations to be aggregated are served by the same electric utility.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":210656,"text":"Subject to the provisions of subdivision A 3 of \u00a7 56-577, counties, cities, and towns (hereafter municipalities) and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth may, at their election and upon authorization by majority votes of their governing bodies, aggregate electrical energy and demand requirements for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electrical energy requirements from any licensed supplier within this Commonwealth, as follows:","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"A1"},"1":{"id":210657,"text":"Any municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers within its boundaries on an opt-in or opt-out basis.","type":"section","prefixes":["A","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"A1","prefix_anchor":"A1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"A2"},"2":{"id":210658,"text":"Any municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy. 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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 411<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2000, chapter 991<\/a>; in 2003, chapter 795<\/a>; in 2004, chapter 827<\/a>; in 2007, chapters 888<\/a> and 933<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":79838,"section_number":"56-577","catch_line":"Schedule for transition to retail competition; Commission authority; exemptions; pilot programs","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-577\/"},{"id":69085,"section_number":"56-588","catch_line":"Licensing of aggregators","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-588\/"}],"permalink":{"id":250759,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57502,"identifier":"56-589","token":"56\/23\/56-589","url":"\/56-589\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-589\/","token":"56\/23\/56-589","dublin_core":{"Title":"Municipal and state aggregation","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-589","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> Subject to the provisions of subdivision A 3 of \u00a7 56-577<\/a>, counties, cities, and towns (hereafter municipalities) and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth may, at their election and upon authorization by majority votes of their governing bodies, aggregate electrical energy and demand requirements for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electrical energy requirements from any licensed supplier<\/span> within this Commonwealth, as follows: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Any municipality<\/span> or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers<\/span> within its boundaries on an opt-in or opt-out basis. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Any municipality<\/span> or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Two or more municipalities or other political subdivisions within the Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588<\/a> when such municipalities or other political subdivisions are acting jointly to negotiate or arrange for themselves agreements for their energy needs directly with licensed suppliers<\/span> or aggregators<\/span>.\n\t\t\t\tNothing in this subsection shall prohibit the Commission<\/span>’s development and implementation of pilot programs for opt-in, opt-out, or any other type of municipal aggregation, as provided in § 56-577<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The Commonwealth, at its election, may aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities, and any other government operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electricity from any licensed supplier<\/span> within the Commonwealth. Aggregation pursuant to this subsection shall not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Nothing in this section shall preclude municipalities from aggregating the electric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of negotiating rates<\/span> and terms, and conditions of service from the electric utility<\/span> certificated by the Commission<\/span> to serve the territory in which such buildings, facilities and operations are located, provided, however, that no such electric energy load shall be aggregated for this purpose unless all such buildings, facilities and operations to be aggregated are served by the same electric utility<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMUNICIPAL AND STATE AGGREGATION (\u00a7 56-589)\n\nA. Subject to the provisions of subdivision A 3 of \u00a7 56-577, counties, cities,\nand towns (hereafter municipalities) and other political subdivisions of the\nCommonwealth may, at their election and upon authorization by majority votes of\ntheir governing bodies, aggregate electrical energy and demand requirements for\nthe purpose of negotiating the purchase of electrical energy requirements from\nany licensed supplier within this Commonwealth, as follows:\n\n 1. Any municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may\n aggregate the electric energy load of residential, commercial, and industrial\n retail customers within its boundaries on an opt-in or opt-out basis.\n\n 2. Any municipality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth may\n aggregate the electric energy load of its governmental buildings, facilities,\n and any other governmental operations requiring the consumption of electric\n energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall not require licensure\n pursuant to § 56-588.\n\n 3. Two or more municipalities or other political subdivisions within the\n Commonwealth may aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental\n buildings, facilities, and any other governmental operations requiring the\n consumption of electric energy. Aggregation pursuant to this subdivision shall\n not require licensure pursuant to § 56-588 when such municipalities or\n other political subdivisions are acting jointly to negotiate or arrange for\n themselves agreements for their energy needs directly with licensed suppliers\n or aggregators.\n \t\t\t\tNothing in this subsection shall prohibit the Commission’s\n development and implementation of pilot programs for opt-in, opt-out, or any\n other type of municipal aggregation, as provided in § 56-577.\n\nB. The Commonwealth, at its election, may aggregate the electric energy load of\nits governmental buildings, facilities, and any other government operations\nrequiring the consumption of electric energy for the purpose of negotiating the\npurchase of electricity from any licensed supplier within the Commonwealth.\nAggregation pursuant to this subsection shall not require licensure pursuant to\n§ 56-588.\n\nC. Nothing in this section shall preclude municipalities from aggregating the\nelectric energy load of their governmental buildings, facilities and any other\ngovernmental operations requiring the consumption of electric energy for the\npurpose of negotiating rates and terms, and conditions of service from the\nelectric utility certificated by the Commission to serve the territory in which\nsuch buildings, facilities and operations are located, provided, however, that\nno such electric energy load shall be aggregated for this purpose unless all\nsuch buildings, facilities and operations to be aggregated are served by the\nsame electric utility.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 411; 2000, c. 991; 2003, c. 795; 2004, c. 827; 2007, cc. 888,\n933.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}