Senate Bill 2295 Summary

• Creates a net metering program requiring each electric provider (public utilities and rural electric cooperatives) to make net metering available to customers with customer generation systems up to 100 kilowatts.

• Allows customers with qualifying renewable energy systems (solar, wind, hydrogen, geothermal, biomass, and other eligible facilities) to generate electricity for their own use and supply excess electricity to the provider.

• Establishes billing on a net energy basis where customers are charged only for net electricity consumed, with excess generation applied as credits to the following month's bill; unused credits accumulate over a 12-month rolling period and are eliminated if not used within that timeframe.

• Specifies that customers must provide equipment meeting national electrical and fire safety standards, and electric providers may require interconnection agreements but cannot impose unreasonable additional burdens or require unnecessary testing and liability insurance.

• Directs the Public Utilities Commission to determine whether net metering program costs exceed benefits and to establish just and reasonable charges, credits, or ratemaking structures accordingly.