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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Ch. 119
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(ii) is interconnected and operated in parallel with an electric
company's transmission and distribution facilities; and
(iii) is intended primarily to offset all or part of the customer's
own electricity requirements.
(4) "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.
(b) The General Assembly finds and declares that a program to provide net
energy metering for eligible customer-generators is a means to encourage private
investment in renewable energy resources, stimulate in-State economic growth,
enhance continued diversification of the State's energy resource mix, and reduce costs
of interconnection and administration.
(c) An electric company serving an eligible customer-generator shall ensure
that the meter installed for net energy metering is capable of measuring the flow of
electricity in two directions.
(d) The Commission shall require electric utilities to develop a standard
contract or tariff for net energy metering and make it available to eligible
customer-generators on a first-come, first-served basis until the rated generating
capacity owned and operated by eligible customer-generators in the State reaches
[34.722] 1,500 megawatts, OF WHICH 1.465.28 MEGAWATTS SHALL BE FOR
ELIGIBLE CUSTOMER GENERATORS THAT OWN AND OPERATE OR LEASE AND
OPERATE A SOLAR ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY[. 0.2% of the State's adjusted
peak-load forecast for 1998].
(e) (1) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, a net energy
metering contract or tariff shall be identical, in energy rates, rate structure, and
monthly charges, to the contract or tariff that the customer would be assigned if the
customer were not an eligible customer-generator.
(2) (i) A net energy metering contract or tariff may not include
charges that would raise the eligible customer-generator's minimum monthly charge
above that of customers of the rate class to which the eligible customer—generator
would otherwise be assigned.
(ii) Charges prohibited by this paragraph include new or
additional demand charges, standby charges, customer charges, and minimum
monthly charges.
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