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Ch. 120
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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Section 10-720(a), (b), and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2006 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.
(3) "Eligible customer-generator" means a customer that owns and
operates or leases and operates a biomass, solar, or wind electric generating facility
that:
(i) is located on the customer's premises;
(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
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