Scope
2026 Virginia Acts chapter 591, an uncodified act, directs the Department of Energy to lead efforts to accelerate the use of waste heat from data centers, including identifying opportunities, evaluating best practices, developing recommendations and convening a work group with industry, local government, utility and other representatives, and to report its findings and recommendations to two legislative committees no later than 1 September 2026.
- Geographic scope
- Virginia
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Virginia General Assembly
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Effective date not stated in the source
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The act states no expiration. 1 September 2026 is a report deadline, not an end date.
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Virginia's 2026 Acts chapter 591 directs the Department of Energy to study and promote beneficial use of waste heat from data centers, convene a work group of industry, local government, utility and other stakeholders, and report findings and legislative proposals to the House Labor and Commerce and Senate Commerce and Labor committees by 1 September 2026. It imposes no requirement on data center operators.
What this does not establish
- The approval date of chapter 591 could not be opened from an official source that permits automated access, so no date is stored.
- The Department of Energy posted a Town Hall public-comment notice on 15 June 2026 (comments through 15 July 2026) citing chapter 591; whether the report was delivered by 1 September 2026 was not established.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/uncodifiedacts/2026/session1/chapter591/