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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 122
Approved April 25, 2006.
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CHAPTER 122
(House Bill 1323)
AN ACT concerning
Electric Companies - Net Energy Metering - Accrual of Generated
Electricity - Crediting to Customer's Account
FOR the purpose of allowing customer-generators that own and operate or lease and
operate certain solar, biomass, or wind electric generating facilities and that
have a net energy metering contract with an electric company to accrue
electricity generation credit for a certain period; requiring the electric company
to carry forward a negative kilowatts per hour reading until the
customer generator begins to consume electricity from the grid for a certain
period under certain circumstances; requiring any surplus energy generated
during the period in which the customer generator accrued generation credit to
be credited to the account of the customer generator in a certain manner and
during a certain period of time altering the definition of eligible
customer-generator to include certain customers that lease and operate certain
generating facilities; authorizing the Public Service Commission to require
certain customer-generators whose facilities are sized to produce energy in
excess of a certain annual energy consumption to install a certain dual meter;
requiring the Commission to develop a certain credit formula for certain
customer-generators whose facilities are sized to produce energy in excess of a
certain annual energy consumption; and generally relating to net energy
metering and the electricity generated by the use of solar, biomass, or wind
electric generating facilities.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Public Utility Companies
Section 7-306
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume and 2005 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Public Utility Companies
7-306.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "Biomass" means "qualified biomass" as defined in § 7-701 of this
title.
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