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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES
R E S O L U T I O N
Regarding Net Energy Metering for
Small-Scale Renewable Generating Facilities
WHEREAS, NASUCA supports the development and increased use of renewable
resources and has promoted regulatory strategies to effectively
encourage the development of renewable resources; and
WHEREAS, renewable energy production has steadily improved in cost-effectiveness
and performance and promises continued improvement; and
WHEREAS, renewable energy supply brings fuel diversity benefits
and mitigates fuel market power in the nation's mix of energy supplies,
and enhances national security, reduces dependence on imported fuels,
and decreases environmental impacts; and
WHEREAS, public preference and customer demand support cost-effective
renewable energy product development and commercialization; and
WHEREAS, net energy metering, an accounting mechanism whereby customers
are billed only for their net energy consumption over a given billing
period, provides a direct, inexpensive, and easily-administered
mechanism for encouraging the demand side use of small scale renewable
energy facilities; and
WHEREAS, net metering and greater distributed generation from renewable
energy sources offer many technical and economic benefits to the
electricity system, including helping to relieve stress on the transmission
system, improving voltage conditions in load pocket areas, reducing
transmission and distribution line loads and losses, and/or peak
demand reduction; and
WHEREAS, over twenty states currently require utilities to make
net energy metering available under terms and conditions that vary
among states, and among individual utilities within those states;
and
WHEREAS, greater support for net energy metering could help to
remove or reduce market entry barriers, reduce the administrative
burden and complexity of interconnecting small-scale renewable energy
generating facilities, and encourage the effective use of such facilities;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NASUCA urges states to consider
measures to make net energy metering available to small-scale renewable
generating facilities, and further request Congress and the FERC
to identify and remove any barriers to state implementation of net
energy metering; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NASUCA supports further exploration
of issues relating to implementation of net energy metering including
such issues as: the eligibility for net metering of different customer
classes; generating technologies and generator sizes; the appropriate
metering and interconnection requirements for net energy metering
facilities; state and federal barriers to implementation; and such
issues as funding mechanisms to address any revenue impacts associated
with the implementation of net energy metering; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NASUCA authorizes its Executive Committee
to develop specific positions and to take appropriate actions consistent
with the terms of this resolution. The Executive Committee shall
advise the membership of any proposed action prior to taking action
if possible. In any event the Executive Committee shall notify the
membership of any action pursuant to this resolution
Approved by NASUCA:
Submitted by:
Seattle, WA
Place
NASUCA Electricity Committee
June 10, 1998
Date
Larry Frimerman (OH), Chair
Thomas Brocato (TX)
Scott Cauchois (CA)
Barry Cohen (OH)
John P. Cook (IN)
Nancy Vaughn Coombs (SC)
Steve Corneli (MN)
Anne Curtin (NY)
George Dean (MA)
William Fields (MD)
Margaret Force (NC)
Brian Gallagher (DE)
Walker Hendrix (KS)
Jim Hurt (GA)
Bruce Johnson (CT)
Robert Kelter
Angela Kennedy (DC)
Eugene Koss (CT)
Ryan Kind (MO)
Thomas Nicholson (VA)
Charles Noble (NM)
Gerald Norlander (NY)
Blossom Peretz (NJ)
William Perkins (ME)
Irwin A. Popowsky (PA)
Fred Schmidt (NV)
Ben Stead (IA)
Kenneth Traum (NH)
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