I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 729 
To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote 
energy independence and self-sufficiency by providing for the use of 
net metering by certain small electric energy generation systems, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 30, 2007 
Mr. INSLEE (for himself, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. EHLERS, Ms. LEE, 
Mr. FARR, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. HONDA, and Ms. HOOLEY) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 
to promote energy independence and self-sufficiency by 
providing for the use of net metering by certain small 
electric energy generation systems, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Home Energy Genera-
tion Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that it is in the public interest 
to: 
(1) Enable small businesses, residences, schools, 
churches, farms with small electric generation units, 
and other retail electric customers who generate 
electric energy to return or sell surplus electric en-
ergy on the open market. 
(2) Encourage private investment in renewable 
and alternate energy resources. 
(3) Stimulate the economic growth. 
(4) Enhance the continued diversification sec-
tion of energy resources used in the United States. 
(5) Remove regulatory barriers for net meter-
ing. 
SEC. 3. NET METERING AND INTERCONNECTION STAND-
ARDS. 
Section 113 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies 
Act of 1978 is amended by adding the following new sub-
sections at the end thereof: 
‘‘(d) NET METERING.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this subsection: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘customer-generator’ means 
the owner or operator of a qualified generation 
unit. 
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‘‘(B) The term ‘net metering’ means meas-
uring the difference between the electricity sup-
plied to a customer-generator and the electricity 
generated by a customer-generator that is deliv-
ered to a local distribution section system at the 
same point of interconnection during an appli-
cable billing period and providing an energy 
credit to a customer-generator in the form of a 
kilowatt-hour credit for each kilowatt-hour of 
energy produced by a customer-generator from 
a qualified generation unit. 
‘‘(C) The term ‘qualified generation unit’ 
means an electric energy generation unit that 
meets each of the following requirements: 
‘‘(i) The unit is a fuel cell or uses as 
its energy source either solar, wind, bio-
mass, geothermal, anaerobic digestion or 
landfill gas, or a combination of the fore-
going. 
‘‘(ii) The unit has a generating capac-
ity of not more than 1,000 kilowatts. 
‘‘(iii) The unit is located on premises 
that are owned, operated, leased, or other-
wise controlled by the customer-generator. 
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