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requirements. and procedures to facilitate participation by
homeowners and small businesses in deployment of solar generation
in the State.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, on or before November
1, 2007, the Public Service Commission shall revise Maryland's interconnection
standards and procedures to be consistent with the interconnection standards of any
state in the PJM region with more than 1,000 interconnected renewable on site
generators That, in recognition of the value of small distributed generation to the
reliable and cost-effective operation of the grid, the Public Service Commission shall:
(1) form a small generator interconnections working group to develop
interconnection standards and procedures for on-site generator facilities operating in
Maryland that are consistent with nationally adopted interconnection standards and
procedures: and
(2) on or before November 1. 2007. by regulation or order, revise
Maryland's interconnection standards and procedures:
(i) to be consistent with nationally adopted interconnection
standards and procedures: and
(ii) to facilitate and encourage a simplified connection of small
distributed generators to the grid in a manner that ensures the safe and reliable
operation of the grid.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED. That the Public Service
Commission shall investigate the benefits to residential customers of using a
regulatory rate-making mechanism that separates electric company distribution sales
from electric company distribution profits, including a mechanism that allows electric
companies to recover fixed distribution costs on a flat rate basis instead of on a
consumption rate basis.
SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the requirement under §
7-306(h)(5) of the Public Utility Companies Article, as enacted by Section 1 of this Act,
for an eligible customer-generator to own and have title to all renewable energy
attributes or renewable energy credits associated with any electricity produced by its
electric generating system shall apply prospectively and may not be construed to:
(1) impair contracts that were entered into before the effective date of
Section 1 of this Act: or
(2) prohibit contracts between an eligible customer-generator and
another entity entered into after the effective date of this Act that explicitly transfers
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