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RESA Files Net Metering Comments
Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) among other things requested that the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) “consider the following reforms as the net metering successor policy is developed”: (i) allowing TPSs to drop customers that have or install net metered Class I renewable energy, as “the TPSs may not be aware of this status until after the enrollment is submitted to the utility”; (ii) requiring “EDCs to recalculate customer’s capacity tags more frequently, particularly for customers who are net metering,” given that “EDCs will soon be required to use AMI data to calculate a customer’s individual capacity tag”; (iii) employing “a compensation methodology that involves calculating an average rate based on the customer’s contracted rate over the past 12 months (or less if they cancelled prior to 12 months)” to remedy the confusion caused by “the current process where a customer selects the base month for the yearly net metering true-up with any remaining customer net metering credits compensated at a wholesale rate”; and (iv) requiring “all customers to receive a net metering cash out every time they switch suppliers or drop back to BGS so that the new supplier is starting with a clean slate,” or “If the Board is not going to allow TPSs the option to not serve these customers, more data should be provided to the TPS so that decisions and appropriate pricing can be made”
As previously reported, Staff initiated this proceeding to develop recommendations to BPU for potential implementation of an updated mechanism of net metering for new customers. It did so consider its calculation that customer-generators exceeded 5.8% of the total kWh sold over the previous year, at which point, according to the state’s 2018 Clean Energy Act, BPU “may authorize an electric power supplier or basic generation service provider to cease offering net metering to customers that are not already net metered.”
See all comments filed at docket link below:
QO24090723 (09/18/2024)
(In the Matter of Net Metering for Class I Renewable Energy Systems)
