§ 24-416. Generally.

(a)

Effective date: Bills rendered on or after February 19, 2013.

(b)

Availability: Available in all areas served by the City of Cartersville Electric System (CES) and subject to CES's service rules and regulations. Only for customers on said rider before February 2, 2017.

(c)

Applicability: Customers desiring to interconnect and/or sell electrical energy to CES produced by a distributed generation facility must be eligible for participation. A distributed generation facility must:

(1)

Be owned and operated by an electrical customer of CES for production of electric energy; and

(2)

Be located on the customer's premises; and

(3)

Be connected to and operate in parallel with CES's distribution facilities; and

(4)

Be intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's requirement for electricity; and

(5)

Be a "renewable energy source" as defined by the State of Georgia such that energy supplied is from a technology approved in the Georgia Green Pricing Accreditation Program.

(d)

Type of service: Power accepted under this rider shall conform to power quality requirements as outlined in the distributed generation agreement between the customer and the City of Cartersville.

(e)

Metering: Bi-directional metering uses one (1) meter to separately measure both the flow of electricity from the utility to the customer and the flow of electricity from the customer to the utility. Bi-directional metering shall be used where distributed generation facilities are connected on the customer's side of the utility meter.

(f)

Payment for energy: Payment for electricity shall be consistent with the Georgia Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act of 2001 (O.C.G.A. § 46-3-50).

Bi-directional metering:

• CES shall own the bi-directional meter. CES shall measure electricity provided to customer and electricity received from customer during the billing period.

• Electricity provided to customer shall be billed in accordance with the standard tariff.

• Customer shall be billed an administration charge each billing period and credited for energy delivered to CES in accordance with the distributed generation energy rider.

(g)

Monthly rate:

Administrative charge ..... $0.00

Distributed generation energy credit: Avoided energy cost plus one and one-half cents (1.5) per kWh.

(h)

Avoided energy cost: CES's avoided energy cost is the wholesale market cost provided by MEAG. The avoided energy cost will change each year with January's consumption and extend through December's consumption at the average hourly price of the previous calendar year. If, in the opinion of CES, the variance of the current wholesale market cost becomes permanently excessive compared to the wholesale market cost of the previous calendar year, the avoided energy cost may be adjusted to reflect current conditions prior to the next scheduled January adjustment.

(i)

Terms and conditions:

(1)

An electrical interconnection and power exchange agreement is required prior to service being initiated under this rider.

(2)

Any costs for application review, metering, engineering, or installation will be paid by the customer prior to service being initiated under this rider.

(3)

CES is not obligated to permit interconnection or to purchase energy from a distributed generation facility that does not meet the requirements above or that has a peak generating capacity exceeding ten (10) kW per residential installation or one hundred (100) kW per nonresidential installation.

(4)

CES will only be required to purchase energy from eligible distributed generation facilities on a first-come, first-served basis until the cumulative generating capacity of all renewable energy sources from all customers equals 0.2 percent of the city's annual peak demand in the previous year. CES may purchase, but is not obligated to purchase, additional energy at a cost agreed to by it and the customer.

(5)

CES reserves the right to inspect and test customer's equipment at any time to ensure proper operation, compliance with safety requirements, or compliance with power quality requirements. CES may separate customer generation from utility system when, as determined by CES, customer system is unsafe or not in compliance.

(6)

CES reserves the right to separate customer generation from utility system when, as determined by CES, continued parallel operation with distribution system is unsafe or may cause damage to persons or property or when working on de-energized lines to isolate all sources of generation.

(7)

If utility service to customer is disconnected for any reason, distributed generation service will also be disconnected.

(8)

CES shall not be liable to any person, directly or indirectly, for loss of property, injury, or death resulting from the interconnection of a cogenerator or distributed generation facility to its electrical system.

(Ord. No. 65-12, § 1, 11-1-12; Ord. No. 06-17, § 1, 2-16-17)