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The Other option for net metering What have you heard The language of net metering Physical meter aggregation Virtual meter aggregation Customergenerator Host account Satellite account ID: 649488

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Slide1

VIRTUAL METER AGGREGATION

(The Other option for net metering)

What have you heard?Slide2

The language of net metering:

Physical meter aggregation

Virtual meter aggregation

Customer-generator

Host account/ Satellite accountSlide3

“Meter aggregation may be completed through physical or virtual meter aggregation

.”

52

Pa. Code § 75.12 (“Meter Aggregation”)Slide4

Physical

meter

aggregation: “

The

physical rewiring

of all meters regardless of rate class on properties owned or leased and operated by a customer-generator

to provide a single point of contact

for a single meter to measure electric service for that

customer-generator”

52 Pa. Code §

75.12Slide5

Physical meter AggregationSlide6

Virtual meter aggregation

: “The

combination of readings and billing

for all meters regardless of rate class on properties owned or leased and operated by a customer-generator

by means of the EDC’s billing

process, rather than through physical rewiring of the customer-generator’s property for a physical, single point of contact. . .

52 Pa. Code § 75.12Slide7

Virtual Meter AggregationSlide8
Slide9

“. . . the

principal objective of the Act’s net metering provision is to provide incentives to small customer-generators to use alternative energy

sources.”

PUC Final Rulemaking Order, entered June 23, 2006, page

12 - L-00050174Slide10

The basics of virtual metering:

2 meters

Solar panels within 2 miles of house/shed/barn

Monthly aggregation

“Combination of readings and billing”Slide11

“Virtual

meter

aggregation . . .

shall be

eligible

for net metering.”“virtual meter aggregation” - 52 Pa. Code 75.12

“Virtual meter aggregation . . . shall be allowed for net metering.”52 Pa. Code

75.14(e).Slide12

Who are the candidates for VM?

Utility customers with houses and garages that are shaded

Utility customers with poorly-oriented roofs

Utility customers with acreage and “sunny patches”

Utility customers with properties split by RR tracks, highways, rivers

Utility customers who rent homes or apartments

Utility customers who live in the country or in townSlide13

How does the cost compare to physical meter aggregation?

How far from a point of interconnection?

How many customer charges?

How much “Incremental

expense”Slide14

The customer-generator shall be responsible only for any incremental expense entailed in processing his account on a virtual meter aggregation basis.”

75.14(e) Slide15

The controversy:

“Non-generational load”Slide16

“However

, around May or June 2010, the Respondent determined that there was no non-generational load at the Complainant’s host account. This is a qualification for net metering

.”

Initial Decision of the ALJ, January 23, 2013Slide17

“To

qualify as

a customer-generator

eligible to participate in net metering, Mr. Moyer’s alternative

energy system

must have must have load that is independent of the alternative energy system (often referred to as non-generational load

).” PPL Electric, in written testimony, March 6, 2015, p. 19PPL’s position ----- March, 2015Slide18

PUC’s Proposed Rulemaking Order

Docket # L-2014-2404361Slide19

P

ublic Comments

May, 2015Slide20

OCA and DEP

Comments oppose the requirement for

“non-generational load”Slide21

“PPL Electric believes that applying the requirement for independent load to the host account is

inconsistent with the purpose of virtual meter aggregation

and would render virtual meter aggregation essentially meaningless”

(PPL Comments Regarding the “Advance Notice of Final Rulemaking Order”, page 8, May 29, 2015)

PPL’s position ------ May, 2015Slide22

What’s next?Slide23

The AEPS

(Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards). . .

a new law ripe for legal challenges!!Slide24

Thank You!

Discussion?