§ 23-18-603 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

23-18-603. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Commission" means the Arkansas Public Service Commission or other appropriate governing body for an electric utility as defined in subdivision (2) of this section;

(2) "Electric utility" means a public or investor-owned utility, an electric cooperative, municipal utility, or any private power supplier or marketer that is engaged in the business of supplying electric energy to the ultimate consumer or any customer classes within the state;

(3) "Net excess generation" means the amount of electricity that a net-metering customer has fed back to the electric utility that exceeds the amount of electricity used by that customer during the applicable period;

(4) "Net metering" means measuring the difference between electricity supplied by an electric utility and the electricity generated by a net-metering customer and fed back to the electric utility over the applicable billing period;

(5) "Net-metering customer" means an owner of a net-metering facility;

(6) "Net-metering facility" means a facility for the production of electrical energy that:

(A) Uses solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, or biomass resources to generate electricity, including, but not limited to, fuel cells and micro turbines that generate electricity if the fuel source is entirely derived from renewable resources;

(B) Has a generating capacity of not more than twenty-five kilowatts (25 kW) for residential use or three hundred kilowatts (300 kW) for any other use;

(C) Is located in Arkansas;

(D) Can operate in parallel with an electric utility's existing transmission and distribution facilities; and

(E) Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the net-metering customer requirements for electricity; and

(7) "Renewable energy credit" means the environmental, economic, and social attributes of a unit of electricity, such as a megawatt hour, generated from renewable fuels that can be sold or traded separately.