HB 2457 Summary

• Establishes net-metering program requiring public power entities serving 300,000 or more megawatt hours annually to offer net-metering to eligible customer-generators with biomass, solar, or wind facilities on a first-come, first-served basis up to 5% of the entity's annual peak load.

• Allows eligible customer-generators to receive one-to-one kilowatt hour credits for excess electricity production that exceeds on-site consumption, with credits carried forward to subsequent billing periods or compensated at the utility's average hourly incremental cost at year-end.

• Requires customer-generator facilities to be equipped with bidirectional metering capable of measuring electricity flow in both directions at the same rate, with the utility covering costs of new meters if existing meters are inadequate.

• Mandates nondiscriminatory rates for net-metered customers identical to standard customer rates and prohibits utilities from charging fees specific to customer-generators unless those same fees apply to similarly situated non-generating customers.

• Authorizes public power entities to inspect customer-generator facilities for IEEE 1547 standard compliance and requires disconnection if noncompliance adversely affects safety or reliability.