2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-TWO - Public Works (§§ 1 — 1104) › Chapter 25 - Net Metering Program (§§ 1011 — 1020b) › § 1015 - Energy metering

Except for those cases where the applicable federal laws or regulations in effect expressly and specifically direct otherwise, the metering and accreditation process shall be as follows; provided, however, that the provisions amended by the Electric Power Authority Revitalization Act shall only apply to net metering agreements that have requested an interconnection evaluation after the date of approval of this Act. The provisions of this Act No. 114-2007 that are in effect as of the date of approval of the Electric Power Authority Revitalization Act shall apply to net metering agreements that are in effect or to net metering application process, as of said date. The Authority shall honor existing net metering agreements in accordance with the terms agreed on.
(a) The Electric Power Authority shall meter the net or consumed electricity by the customer during a billing cycle in accordance with standard metering practices in effect, as provided in and pursuant to the net metering regulations and standards established by the Commission.
(b) The Electric Power Authority may bill a customer for the net electricity supplied, as well as the charge to be approved by the Energy Commission in accordance with § 1014 of this title.
(c) In those cases in which a customer feeds back to the Electric Power Authority more electricity than it supplied to the customer during a billing cycle, the Electric Power Authority may charge the customer a minimum monthly service fee not greater than that which it charges to other regular customers that do not consume electricity during a billing cycle.
(d) For the purposes of this chapter, “excess” shall be understood to be the production of electricity generated by the customer’s solar electric equipment or windmill or other source of renewable energy over the energy consumption supplied to the customer by the Electric Power Authority, minus any service fee, if applicable. Likewise, the term “kilowatt-hour” shall be understood to be the unit of electric power equivalent to the electricity yielded by the power of one kilowatt acting for one hour.
(e) For the billing cycle closing in June of each year, any excess kilowatt-hour credit accumulated by the feedback customer during the previous year and which remains unused shall be compensated as follows:
(1) Seventy-five percent (75%) of the excess shall be purchased by the Electric Power Authority as provided by the Energy Commission; and
(2) The remaining twenty-five percent (25%) shall be assigned to the Electric Power Authority to be distributed as a credit or reduction in the electricity bills of public schools.
(f) PREPA shall credit every participant of the Net Metering Program promptly and expeditiously, provided that the electricity generated by the customer exceeds the electricity supplied by PREPA during the billing month. Such credit shall be clearly shown in the monthly bill for the next billing cycle after the Net Meter was installed.
(g) If an agreement in accordance with this chapter is not reached between the parties thereto within a non-extendable term of one hundred twenty (120) days counted from the date on which a net metering application was submitted to the Authority, or in those cases where the Authority must disconnect a renewable energy source under the Net Metering Program due to technical or security reasons, or in the event of a dispute related to bills or credits, the Puerto Rico Energy Commission shall have jurisdiction to settle such disputes as provided in §§ 1051 et seq. of this title.
History —Aug. 16, 2007, No. 114, § 5; June 2, 2012, No. 103, § 2; Feb. 16, 2016, No. 4, § 30; Aug. 5, 2016, No. 133, § 5.