00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 288                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to net energy metering for retail electricity suppliers and customers."                                
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 42.45 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
04            Sec. 42.45.045. Net energy metering. (a) A retail supplier of electricity                                  
05       providing service to residential or commercial customers shall offer to a customer, at                            
06       the same proportional fee as a standard meter, the option of net energy metering that is                          
07       capable of registering the flow of electricity in two directions if the customer owns or                          
08       operates an electric generation facility that                                                                     
09                 (1)  is located on the customer's premises;                                                             
10                 (2)  has a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts;                                                      
11                 (3)  uses solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, or hydropower as its fuel;                                    
12                 (4)  operates in parallel with the distribution facilities of the retail                                
13       supplier of electricity; and                                                                                      
14                 (5)  is intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's                                      
15       requirements for electricity.                                                                                     

01            (b)  If, during any billing period, a customer's facility that uses a net energy                             
02       meter generates more energy than the customer consumes, the retail supplier of                                    
03       electricity shall credit the customer in kilowatt hours for the excess amount of energy                           
04       and apply the credits to reduce amounts owed by the customer to the retail supplier in                            
05       the following billing period or periods until the credits are used. Credits applied in a                          
06       billing period must be the oldest credits that a customer has generated.                                          
07            (c)  The customer may sell to the retail supplier of electricity kilowatt-hour                               
08       energy credits described in (b) of this section that are not applied under (b) of this                            
09       section. The customer may sell credits at the non-firm purchase power rate, as                                    
10       determined and approved by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for the supplier. If                               
11       not sold under this subsection or applied under (b) of this section, credits expire two                           
12       years after the billing period in which the credits were generated.                                               
13            (d)  The provisions of (a) - (c) of this section do not apply to a retail supplier of                        
14       electricity if, except for carbon fuel based generation for standby and emergency                                 
15       power, 100 percent of its power generation is provided by an alternative energy                                   
16       system, as that term is defined in AS 46.11.900.