Archive for February, 2008

FLASH – Late-breaking news that missed the March 2008 newsletter. On February 27, 2008, the Virginia Corporation Commission opened Docket PUE-2008-00004 to develop small distributed generator interconnection standards consistent with the federal standards. The VCC staff has proposed draft interconnection standards and commentary will be accepted until May 19, 2008.

On February 14, 2008, the California Public Utilities Commission announced the adoption of resolution E-4137 which ordered some of the state‚ s utilities to file a standard tariff to offer 10, 15, and 20 year contracts to buy the power of small renewable generators (up to 1.5 MW) at time-differentiated market-based prices. These tariffs have ... Read More

On January 13, 2008, Governor Jon Corzine enacted S.B. 2936, which revises the state’s net metering law as follows: First, large industrial and commercial customers, in addition to residential and small commercial customers, can receive net metering for all Class I type renewable generators. Second, the distributed generation owner has the option to execute a ... Read More

On February 20, 2008, the Illinois Commerce Commission issued its proposed net metering order (Case 07-0483), with comments due by February 26, 2008. This rule is intended to meet the requirements of legislation enacted in August 2007, S.B. 0680, which requires all electricity providers, except munis and cooperatives, to offer net metering to all customers ... Read More

On March 4, 2008, the Florida Public Service Commission will hold a hearing on its proposed amendments (see below) to the state’s existing IC/NM rules for small renewable generation. On January 25, 2008, Florida’s four investor-owned utilities filed their joint concerns regarding these proposed amendments. On December 28, 2007, the PSC issued Order PSC-07-1026-NOR-EI (Docket ... Read More

On February 7, 2008, the Texas Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed rule which defines net metering. Public commentary will be accepted until March 13, 2008 and, if requested, a hearing will be held on March 18, 2008. This definition was requested by ERCOT on January 15, 2008 so that its Distributed Generation Task Force ... Read More

On January 31, 2008, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control issued its final decision regarding changes to the net metering program of Connecticut Light and Power (Docket 03-07-02RE10). This decision involves net metering under a forthcoming advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system. The highlights of this decision follow: Since the initial cost of photovoltaic (PV) ... Read More