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First Set Of Comments Filed Following Net Meter Technical Session Held On The DOE’s Proposed Net Metering Rules
The first set of comments were filed following net meter technical session.
See: En 900 Rules W. Packy Campbell Comments Regarding SB 391
The technical session on the DOE’s proposed net metering rule was held on July 22nd. The agenda can be found here.
As a reminder that a draft net metering rule must be submitted to the Legislature by October 25, 2025.
As background on July 1, 2025, DOE posted final draft En 900 rules final draft En 900 rules.
DOE’s proposed changes include: (1) moving interconnection rules to En 1000 and significant portions of En 903.02, “Statutes and other requirements,” to the PUC; (2) allowing municipal and county aggregators to offer net metering; (3) requiring utilities to offer alternative net metering tariff customers to opt for quarterly payments; (4) amending En 909, “Group Net Metering,” to specify “for Customer Generators 1,000 Kilowatts or Less,” and denying payments or credits to “hosts that are large customer-generators that do not receive default service”; (5) for group net metering, redistributing to the host the credit percentage allocation of an account that becomes inactive or a member who moves until “the next host and member billing cycles occurring at least 10 business days following” hosts submission of “a request for changes to the group membership or credit percentage allocations” that meets requirements given, and, if necessary, DOE approval; (6) expand and further specify “Duties of the Distribution Utility” regarding group net metering, including: (i) requiring “review [of] group net metering registration applications when requested”; (ii) further specifying requirements for payment to hosts and application of bill credits to members, including specifying that “Bill credits shall revert to group host if utility is unable to apply credits to any group members until such time the member is replaced”; (7) defining and incorporating references to “Electric Assistance Program Low Moderate Income Community Solar Project (EAP LMI),” and adding En 910, governing such projects; (8) adding En 911, governing group net metering for customer generators over 1MW and under 5MW, which is restricted to municipal hosts; and (9) prohibit members of groups with on-bill crediting from being members of more than one group.
