Billing; certain excess electricity fed back to utility deemed electricity generated or acquired from renewable energy system for purposes of portfolio standard for renewable energy.
1. The billing period for net metering may be either a monthly period or, with the written consent of the customer-generator, an annual period.
2. The net energy measurement must be calculated in the following manner:
(a) The utility shall measure the net electricity produced or consumed during the billing period, in accordance with normal metering practices.
(b) If the electricity supplied by the utility exceeds the electricity generated by the customer-generator which is fed back to the utility during the billing period, the customer-generator must be billed for the net electricity supplied by the utility.
(c) If the electricity generated by the customer-generator which is fed back to the utility exceeds the electricity supplied by the utility during the billing period:
(1) Neither the utility nor the customer-generator is entitled to compensation for electricity provided to the other during the billing period; and
(2) The excess electricity which is fed back to the utility shall be deemed to be electricity that the utility generated or acquired from a renewable energy system for the purposes of complying with its portfolio standard pursuant to NRS 704.7801 to 704.7828, inclusive.
Last modified: February 26, 2006