(A) The city encourages interested citizens and businesses to invest in renewable electric energy generation systems and enter into a net metering arrangement with the Tell City Electric Department.
(B) Eligible net metering customers include residential and commercial customers in good standing that own and operate a solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, or hydroelectric generating facility that:
(1) Has a nameplate capacity less than or equal to ten kilowatts (kW);
(2) Is located on the customer's premises which serves only the customer’s premises, and is operated by the customer; and
(3) Is used primarily to offset all or part of the customer's own electricity requirements.
(C) The Council authorizes the Tell City Electric Department to offer net metering to eligible net metering customers on a first come, first served basis. The Tell City Electric Department shall limit the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity from all eligible net metering customers to one-tenth of 0.1% of the Tell City Electric Department's most recent summer peak load.
(D) The Tell City Electric Department shall measure the difference between the amount of energy delivered by the Tell City Electric Department to the eligible net metering customer and the amount of energy generated by the eligible net metering customer and delivered to the Tell City Electric Department. If the eligible net metering customer generates more energy than is consumed in a month, the customer shall receive a bill credit from the Tell City Electric Department for the amount of surplus energy generated. The Tell City Electric Department shall not purchase or wheel power produced by an eligible net metering customer's facilities.
(E) The attached “Net Metering Tariff” shall be adopted as the terms and conditions under which the Tell City Electric Department will offer net metering to eligible net metering customers.
(F) In accordance with the terms of the attached “Net Metering Tariff”, the Tell City Electric Department shall enter into an interconnection agreement with the eligible net metering customer, which incorporates technical interconnection requirements and does not conflict with this section before the net metering facility may be interconnected with the Tell City Electric Department’s system.
(Ord. 1081, passed 11-3-2014)