Rules
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.
How It Works
At the request of the member, monthly excess kWh credits may be transferred to additional accounts in a rank order provided by the member. The additional accounts must be in the name of the member who owns the net metering facility. The member must provide the rank order of additional accounts at least 30 days prior to the first requested transfer, and the member can only make changes to the rank order one time in the calendar year. If the additional accounts are not in the same billing cycle as the net-metered account, those accounts will be moved to a common billing cycle. The additional accounts do not have to be the same class of service. Excess kWh credits will be applied to the additional accounts up to the amount needed to net-zero the kWh usage on each account in the rank order provided. Credit kWh will not be divided proportionately across the additional accounts, and the additional accounts cannot carry forward credit kWh from month to month. If the member has multiple net metering facilities, each net meter facility must have its own rank order list of additional accounts. An account only can be assigned to one rank order list. Up to four months’ average usage on the net-metered account may be carried forward from one calendar year to the next calendar year. Excess kWh credits over the four months’ average usage will expire at the end of the calendar year, and the member will not receive payment from AVECC for the net excess kWh.
