The current rules set forth by the APSC regarding renewable energy and net metering state:
Before Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative (AVECC) approves a net metering facility, the following conditions must be met:
- The net metering facility must use solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, or biomass resources to generate electricity.
- The net metering facility must have a generating capacity of no more than 25-kW for residential use or 300-kW for any other use.
- The net metering facility must be interconnected to a metered service billed under any of AVECC’s metered rates. The account must be in the name of the owner of the net metering facility.
- The net metering facility must be intended primarily to offset some or all of the net metering customer’s requirements for electricity.
- Additional services on the same premises are eligible for net metering provided the combined size of all net metering facilities for residential use does not exceed 25-kW and the combined size of all net metering facilities for non-residential use does not exceed 300-kW.
