Net Metering Holden Municipal Light Department will enter into an agreement with customer-generators that own a net metering facility. A net metering facility is an electric generation facility that uses solar, wind, fuel cell or hydroelectric power to generate the electric power. The rated generating capacity of any one customer-generator's facility may not exceed 10 kilowatts. The net metering facility must be located on property owned by the customer-generator and must operate in parallel with the Utility's existing transmission and distribution facilities. The
primary intent of the net metering facility must be to offset all or part of the customer-generator's own electric power requirements.
The customer-generator must complete a Holden Municipal Light Department Net Metering application and sign a Net Metering and Interconnection Agreement. The customer-generator may be required to pay an application fee.
The customer-generator shall build, operate and maintain the net metering facility so that it meets or exceeds all applicable safety and performance standards established by the Massachusetts State Building Codes, the Massachusetts DTE, the National Electric Code, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Underwriters Laboratories. The customer-generator shall provide a safety disconnect device located adjacent to the Utility's metering equipment and shall be accessible to Utility personnel at all times. The disconnect switch must be lockable by means of a padlock in either the open or closed position. The Utility shall have the option of requiring ongoing testing of the disconnect equipment. The Utility may disconnect the customer-generator's net metering facility from the power system any time it deems that the safety and
stability of the Utility's system may be compromised. The Utility may limit the cumulative generating capacity of all net metering systems to one-half of one percent of its historic single-hour peak load.
Holden Municipal Light Department will install bi-directional metering equipment that is capable of registering the flow of electricity in each direction at the sole expense of the customer-generator. Holden Municipal Light Department will be responsible for the maintenance and service of the bi-directional metering equipment. During a billing period, if the customer-generator uses more electricity than it feeds back onto the Utility's system, the customer-generator will be billed based on the rate applicable to the customer-generator's class of service. If during a billing period, the customer-generator feeds back on the Utility's system more electricity than supplied by the Utility, the customer-generator will be billed the minimum charge applicable to the customer-generator's class of service and be credited for the excess electricity
generated and fed on to the Utility system. For the billing period ending in March of each year, if any unused credits have accumulated during the previous twelve months, the Utility will credit the customer-generator's account an amount equal to the unused credited kilowatt hours times the average of the wholesale cost of power excluding transmission costs for the previous 12-month period.
Holden Municipal Light Department shall not be liable, directly or indirectly, for permitting or continuing to allow the attachment of a net metering facility, or for the acts or omissions of the customer-generator that cause property damage, or loss, or injury, including death, to any party.
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