This bill amends the Limited Electrical Energy Producers Act to provide a mechanism for customer-generators who have been inadvertently enrolled in a municipal or county aggregation program to request re-enrollment in their electric distribution utility's default energy service. Specifically, it allows these customer-generators to petition their utility for re-enrollment if the enrollment occurred by error or without their consent. Upon receiving such a request, the utility is required to investigate the enrollment status within 20 business days and, if the inadvertent enrollment is confirmed, restore the customer to default service by the next billing cycle.

Additionally, the bill stipulates that the utility must retroactively apply net metering credits for exported kilowatt-hours for up to four monthly billing cycles prior to the re-enrollment date, based on the applicable net metering tariff during the period of inadvertent dis-enrollment. However, any credits for energy exported more than three months before the customer notified the utility are not recoverable. The bill also includes provisions for the recovery of retroactive credits from all customers, consistent with the utility's net metering expenses. The act will take effect 60 days after its passage.

Statutes affected:
As Amended by the House: 362-A:9