Amendment ID: S2545-16

Amendment 16

Class I net metering credits for community solar projects

Messrs. Barrett and Eldridge move that the proposed new draft be amended by inserting the following section:-

SECTION XX.  Subsection (i) of said section 139 of said chapter 164, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by adding the following sentences:-

Any facility at least 75% owned by, or at least 75% of which is producing net metering credits for, 3 or more individual residential customers, including a neighborhood net metering facility, in which no one residential customer owns more than 60 kilowatts of design capacity, or receives more credits than the amount of credits produced annually by a facility with a 60 kilowatt design capacity, shall be exempt from subsections (b½) and (k) of this section, and may net meter and accrue Class I net metering credits.  Any such facility shall also be exempt from any limit on the aggregate net metering capacity set by subsection (f) of this section.