Ch. 542                                    2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

customers who own and operate wind electric generating facilities to meet
certain additional requirements; and generally relating to net energy metering
in connection with wind electric generating facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Public Utility Companies
Section 7-306

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume and 2003 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) "Eligible customer-generator" means a customer that[:
(i) is served by an electric company at:

1. a single-family dwelling which is:

A. a residence of the customer on a residential service tariff;

or

service tariff;

education; and

B. the principal residence of the customer on a general

2.       a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school; or

3.       a public or nonpublic institution of postsecondary

(ii)] owns and operates a solar electrical generating facility OR A
WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY that:

1. (I) has a capacity of not more than 80 kilowatts;

2. (II) is located on the customer's premises;

3. (III) is interconnected and operated in parallel with an
electric company's transmission and distribution facilities; and

4. (IV) is intended primarily to offset all or part of the
customer's own electricity requirements.

(3) "Net energy metering" means measurement of the difference between
the electricity that is supplied by an electric company and the electricity that is
generated by an eligible customer-generator and fed back to the electric company
over the eligible customer-generator's billing period.

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