Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3485 – Commercial or institutional distributed generation resources procurement
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1. Procurement amounts. By July 1, 2024, the commission shall procure 125 megawatts of the output of distributed generation resources associated with commercial or institutional customer accounts by conducting an initial competitive solicitation for the first block of 25 megawatts pursuant to section 3484 to establish market?based, declining block contract rates to procure the remaining 100 megawatts.
[PL 2019, c. 478, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3485
- Commercial or institutional customer: means a nonresidential customer of an investor?owned transmission and distribution utility in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Customer: includes any person, government or governmental division which has applied for, been accepted and is currently receiving service from a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Distributed generation resource: means an electric generating facility with a nameplate capacity of less than 5 megawatts that uses a renewable fuel or technology under section 3210, subsection 2, paragraph B?3 and is located in the service territory of a transmission and distribution utility in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Output: means energy, capacity, renewable energy certificates and all other environmental attributes and market products that are available or may become available from a distributed generation resource. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Public utility: includes every gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility, transmission and distribution utility, telephone utility, water utility and ferry, as those terms are defined in this section, and each of those utilities is declared to be a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Rate: means a price per kilowatt?hour of delivered energy as measured by a revenue grade meter, as defined by the commission by rule, at a distributed generation resource's point of connection to the electric grid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
2. Determination of bill credit. The bill credit allocated to a commercial or institutional customer must be based on the total kilowatt?hours of energy production of the distributed generation resource for the previous month. For each billing month, the value of the credit must be calculated by multiplying the number of kilowatt?hours by the contract rate. A payment to a commercial or institutional customer must be credited against the customer’s monthly electricity bill in accordance with section 3487. The monthly energy production must be determined by a revenue?grade meter installed and paid for by the participating commercial or institutional customer.
[PL 2019, c. 478, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).]
3. Exemption. A commercial or institutional customer is not considered a public utility or competitive electricity provider solely as a result of entering into a contract with a standard buyer under this section.
[PL 2019, c. 478, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2019, c. 478, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).