NRS 704.7732
Utility required to provide customer-generator with credit for excess electricity

  • amount of credit
  • monthly report of cumulative installed capacity of certain net metering systems.

1.

If a customer-generator accepts the offer of a utility for net metering on or after June 15, 2017, and the net metering system of the customer-generator has a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts, the utility must, in accordance with this section, provide to the customer-generator a credit for each kilowatt-hour of excess electricity governed by paragraph (c) of subsection 2 of NRS 704.775 that is generated by the customer-generator.

2.

The credit for each kilowatt-hour of excess electricity described in subsection 1 must equal a percentage, as set forth in subsection 3, of the rate the customer-generator would have paid for a kilowatt-hour of electricity supplied by the utility at the time the customer-generator fed the kilowatt-hour of excess electricity back to the utility.

3.

The percentage to be used to determine the credit pursuant to subsection 2 for each kilowatt-hour of excess electricity must equal:

(a)

Ninety-five percent, if the customer-generator accepts the offer of the utility for net metering:

(1)

On or after June 15, 2017; and

(2)

Before the date on which the Commission determines and posts on its Internet website its determination that the cumulative installed capacity of all net metering systems in this State with a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts for customer-generators who accepted the offer of the utility for net metering on or after June 15, 2017, is equal to 80 megawatts;

(b)

Eighty-eight percent, if the customer-generator accepts the offer of the utility for net metering:

(1)

On or after the date that the Commission determines that the condition set forth in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) has been met; and

(2)

Before the date on which the Commission determines and posts on its Internet website its determination that the cumulative installed capacity of all net metering systems in this State with a generating capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts for customer generators who accepted the offer of the utility for net metering on or after the date described in subparagraph (1) is equal to 80 megawatts;

(c)

Eighty-one percent, if the customer-generator accepts the offer of the utility for net metering:

(1)

On or after the date that the Commission determines that the condition set forth in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (b) has been met; and

(2)

Before the date on which the Commission determines and posts on its Internet website its determination that the cumulative installed capacity of all net metering systems in this State with a generating capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts for customer generators who accepted the offer of the utility for net metering on or after the date described in subparagraph (1) is equal to 80 megawatts;

(d)

Seventy-five percent, if the customer-generator accepts the offer of the utility for net metering on or after the date that the Commission determines that the condition set forth in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (c) has been met.

4.

On or before the 15th day of each calendar month, a utility shall post on its Internet website and report to the Commission the cumulative installed capacity of the net metering systems with a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts for which a customer-generator has accepted the offer of that utility as of the close of business of the utility on the last business day of the immediately preceding calendar month.

5.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for the purposes of this section, a customer-generator shall be deemed to accept the offer of the utility for net metering on the date the customer-generator submits to the utility a complete application to install a net metering system within the service area of the utility. A customer-generator who accepted the offer of the utility for net metering before June 15, 2017, and whose net metering system has a capacity of not more than 25 kilowatts may, but is not required to, submit a request to be treated for all purposes, including, without limitation, for the purposes of subsection 3, as a customer-generator who accepted the offer of the utility for net metering on the date of submitting the request.

Source: Section 704.7732 — Utility required to provide customer-generator with credit for excess electricity; amount of credit; monthly report of cumulative installed capacity of certain net metering systems., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-704.­html#NRS704Sec7732.

Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

§ 704.7732’s source at nv​.us