House Bill 5864 Summary

• Establishes a distributed generation program by July 19, 2017 that allows electric customers to interconnect eligible generators and operate them in parallel with the distribution system.

• Extends program duration from 10 years to 20 years and permits customers to generate up to 100% of their previous 12 months' electricity consumption.

• Removes the 1% cap on distributed generation as a percentage of average in-state peak load, eliminating the previous allocation limits for different generator sizes.

• Changes customer selection from first-come, first-served basis to selection based solely on meeting interconnection and equipment requirements, with restrictions on participant limits requiring commission approval.

• Removes provisions requiring customers with systems over 20 kilowatts to use modified net metering, consolidating metering requirements under the distributed generation program.