2006 Utah Code - 54-15-104 — Charges or credits for net electricity.

     54-15-104.   Charges or credits for net electricity.
     (1) Each electrical corporation with a customer participating in a net metering program shall measure net electricity during each billing period, in accordance with normal metering practices.
     (2) If net metering does not result in excess customer-generated electricity during the billing period, the electrical corporation shall bill the customer for the net electricity, in accordance with normal billing practices.
     (3) If net metering results in excess customer-generated electricity during the billing period:
     (a) (i) the electrical corporation shall credit the customer for the excess customer-generated electricity at a value that is at least avoided cost;
     (ii) the customer may use the credit under Subsection (3)(a)(i) to offset purchases of electricity from the electrical corporation during future billing periods during the same calendar year; and
     (iii) all credits that the customer does not use during the calendar year expire at the end of the calendar year; and
     (b) the electrical corporation may bill the customer for customer charges that otherwise would have accrued during that billing period in the absence of excess customer-generated electricity.

Enacted by Chapter 6, 2002 General Session