At the end of each monthly billing period, where the electricity supplied during the period by the electric utility exceeds:

(1) The electricity generated by the eligible customer-generator during that same period; and

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-107

  • Eligible customer-generator: means a metered residential or commercial customer, including a government entity, of an electric utility who owns and operates a solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating facility, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, that is:

    (1) Located on the customer's premises;

    (2) Operated in parallel with the utility's transmission and distribution facilities;

    (3) In conformance with the utility's interconnection requirements; and

    (4) Intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's own electrical requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-101

(2) Any unused credits for excess electricity from the eligible customer-generator carried over from prior months since the last twelve-month reconciliation period, the eligible customer-generator is a net electricity consumer and the electric utility shall be owed compensation for the eligible customer-generator’s net kilowatt-hour consumption over that same period. The compensation owed for the eligible customer-generator’s net monthly kilowatt-hour consumption shall be calculated at the retail rate of the rate class the customer is normally assigned to.

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