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| CA Net Metering Standards | |
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| Type of Incentive | Net Metering |
| Eligible States | CA |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | Biogas, Biomass, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other |
| Eligible Project Size | 1MW limit on system size, (10 MW for up to three biogas digesters) |
| Critical Information | Eligible Technologies: Photovoltaics, Landfill Gas, Wind, Fuel Cells, Anaerobic Digestion. Overall Enrollment Restrictions: 2.5% of a utility's peak demand (limit of 50 MW for SDG&E); there is a statewide limit of 50 MW for biogas digesters. Net Excess: Credited to the customer's next bill; granted to the utility after 12 months of billing. |
| Start Date | 9/24/2002 |
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| Additional Information | Municipal utilities must allow net-metering or co-metering for systems up to 1 MW. Biogas-Electric units up to 1 MW can net meter until September 2009. Net metering can be continued for a biogas digester for the life of the facility as long as the unit meets BACT. The 2002 net-metering amendments exempted net-metered facilities from exit fees and limit net metering to 0.5% of a utility's peak demand. Legislation enacted in 2006 (SB 1) increased the aggregate limit of net-metered systems in a utility's service territory from 0.5% to 2.5% of the utility's aggregate customer peak demand. (Previously, both SDG&E and PG&E were rapidly approaching their 0.5% limits.) Later legislation in 2003, AB 1214, allowed for net-metering of fuel cells until total cumulative generating capacity reaches 45 MW within a service area with a peak demand of at least 10,000 MW, or a capacity limit of 22.5 MW for a service area of 10,000 MW or less. The maximum total capacity of all net-metered fuel cells is limited to 112.5 MW. Under the recent AB 67 2005 fuel cells that begin operation before 2010 are eligible to net meter. Net excess generation is carried forward each month for up to a year and then any remaining is granted to the utility. Customers that must pay time-of-use rates can provide electricity back to the utility at these same rates but must install the equipment capable of monitoring this generation. California also does not allow any additional charges that would increase a customer's costs beyond those of other customers in the same rate class. The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) has also ruled that systems eligible for net-metering are exempt from interconnection application fees as well as interconnection review fees. |
| Web Site | http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/erprebate/net_metering.html |
| Additional Web Site | http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=CA02R&state=CA&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1 |
| Primary Contact | General Information 505 Van Ness Ave. 4-A San Francisco, CA 94102 U.S.A. General Information (renewable@energy.state.ca.us) (415) 703-2782 (415) 703-1758 |