Customer Generation

KPUD con­tin­ues to vol­un­tar­i­ly offer a net meter­ing pro­gram for Cus­tomer-Gen­er­a­tors (own­ers of solar and oth­er eli­gi­ble renew­able resources) that allows the off­set the ener­gy con­sump­tion and pos­si­bly “store” the pow­er pro­duced for future use, if the amount gen­er­at­ed is more than is need­ed at that time.

KPUD Cus­tomer-Gen­er­a­tors with a capac­i­ty of 100 kilo­watts AC out­put or less are eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate in our net meter­ing pro­gram. Pro­posed gen­er­a­tor sys­tems with a capac­i­ty of 26–100 kilo­watts require addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion and approval.

To receive cred­it for the elec­tric­i­ty pro­duced, inter­est­ed net meter­ing cus­tomers need to com­plete an Inter­con­nec­tion Appli­ca­tion and Agree­ment for approval by the util­i­ty. Upon com­ple­tion of the sys­tem and fol­low­ing a Wash­ing­ton State L&I approved inspec­tion, a new bi-direc­tion­al meter will be installed to mea­sure the property’s elec­tric use as well as the net ener­gy con­tributed to the util­i­ty to be used as an off­set to the Cus­tomer-Gen­er­a­tors con­sump­tion in accor­dance with Wash­ing­ton state rules. Net gen­er­a­tion will be cal­cu­lat­ed at the cur­rent ener­gy rate (kilo­watt-hours) per the applic­a­ble rate sched­ule defined by ser­vice require­ments and future revi­sions to rate sched­ules and rate designs.

Par­tic­i­pants must com­ply with the terms and con­di­tions of Pol­i­cy Bul­letin 25 Inter­con­nec­tion Stan­dards and approved Inter­con­nec­tion Agree­ment.