IREC and the North Carolina Solar Center (NCSC) examine net metering in retail choice markets. Justin Barnes & Laurel Varnado will publish a paper and this webinar explains the structure of their research. Kevin Fox discussed working with states that have retail choice and why this research is important.

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14 States
plus D.C.
allow retail
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• Entails breaking up vertically-integrated companies into
distribution utilities and retail suppliers
• Distribution utilities (wires and lines), retail suppliers (energy)
• States have different configurations of these relationships
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Generate a firmer idea for how net metering functions in states
with retail choice, including problems that have arisen and their
solutions.
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• Utility Definition(s)
– Ex. Delaware: Statute: PSC, municipal utilities and cooperatives must
"Ensure that electric suppliers provide net-metered customers electric
service at nondiscriminatory rates..." Statute: "Electric supplier" means
a person or entity certified by the Commission that sells electricity to
retail electric customers utilizing the transmission and/or distribution
facilities of a nonaffiliated electric utility.
• Net Metering Required for Competitive Suppliers?
• Separate Competitive Supplier Rate Option
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6. • Permitted Meter Configuration
• Competitive Billing Configuration
- Ex. New Jersey: Supplier Option. Customer apparently may
request to be billed directly by the supplier.
• Other Related Definitions
• Rollover Provisions
• Charges
- Ex. Connecticut: A customer…with a nameplate capacity of
more than ten kilowatts of electricity...shall be assessed for the
competitive transition assessment and the systems benefits
charge, based on the amount of electricity consumed by the
customer…without netting any electricity produced by the
customer.
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