Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 4240 - Public Service Commission › Chapter 20 - Electric Utilities › Section 20 CSR 4240-20.100 - Electric Utility Renewable Energy Standard Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule sets the definitions, structure,
				  operation, and procedures relevant to compliance with the Renewable Energy
				  Standard.
(1) Definitions.
				For the purpose of this rule-
(A) Calendar
				year means a period of three hundred sixty-five (365) days (or three hundred
				sixty-six (366) days for leap years) that includes January 1 of the year and
				all subsequent days through and including December 31 of the same
				year;
(B) Co-fire means
				simultaneously using multiple fuels in a single generating unit to produce
				electricity;
(C) Commission means
				the Public Service Commission of the state of Missouri;
(D) Customer-generator means the owner,
				lessee, or operator of an electric energy generation unit that meets all of the
				following criteria:
1. Is powered by a
				renewable energy resource;
2. Is
				located on premises that are owned, operated, leased, or otherwise controlled
				by the party as retail account holder and which corresponds to the service
				address for the retail account;
3.
				Is interconnected and operates in parallel phase and synchronization with an
				electric utility and has been approved for interconnection by said electric
				utility; and
4. Meets all
				applicable safety, performance, interconnection, and reliability standards of
				the net metering rule,
				4 CSR
				240-20.065(1)(C) 6. and
				4 CSR
				240-20.065(1)(C) 7.
(E) Division means the Division of
				Energy, Department of Economic Development;
(F) Electric utility means an electrical
				corporation as defined in section
				386.020,
				RSMo;
(G) General rate proceeding
				means a general rate proceeding before the commission where the commission
				considers all relevant factors that may affect the costs or rates and charges
				of the electric utility when setting rates;
(H) Green pricing program means a voluntary
				program that provides an electric utility's retail customers an opportunity to
				purchase renewable energy or renewable energy credits (RECs);
(I) OPC means the Office of the Public
				Counsel;
(J) Operational means all
				of the major components of the on-site solar photovoltaic system have been
				purchased and installed on the customer generator's premises, and the
				production of rated net electrical generation has been measured by the utility.
				If a customer has satisfied all of the System Completion Requirements by June
				30 of indicated years, but the electric utility is not able to complete all of
				the electric utility's steps needed to establish an Operational Date on or
				before June 30, the rebate rate will be determined as though the Operational
				Date was June 30. If it is subsequently determined that the customer or the
				System did not satisfy all Completion Requirements required of the customer on
				or before June 30, the rebate rate will be determined based on the Operational
				Date;
(K) PVWatts[TM] means the
				site specific data calculator that uses hourly typical meteorological year
				weather data and a photovoltaic performance model to estimate annual energy
				production and costs savings for a photovoltaic system;
(L) Rate class means a customer class defined
				in an electric utility's tariff. Generally, rate classes include Residential,
				Small General Service, Large General Service, and Large Power Service, but may
				include additional rate classes. Each rate class includes all customers served
				under all variations of the rate schedules available to that class;
(M) REC, Renewable Energy Credit, or
				Renewable Energy Certificate means a trad-able certificate, that is either
				certified by an entity approved as an acceptable authority by the commission or
				as validated through the commission's approved REC tracking system or a
				generator's attestation. RECs validated through an attestation must be signed
				by an authorized individual of the company that owns the renewable energy
				resource. Such attestation shall contain the name and address of the generator,
				the type of renewable energy resource technology, and the time and date of the
				generation. A REC represents that one (1) megawatt-hour of electricity has been
				generated from renewable energy resources. RECs include, but are not limited
				to, solar renewable energy credits. A REC expires three (3) years from the date
				the electricity associated with that REC was generated;
(N) Renewable energy resource(s) means
				electric energy, produced from the following:
1. Wind;
2. Solar, including solar thermal sources
				utilized to generate electricity, photovoltaic cells, or photovoltaic
				panels;
3. Dedicated crops grown
				for energy production;
4.
				Cellulosic agricultural residues;
5. Plant residues;
6. Methane from landfills, from agricultural
				operations or wastewater treatment;
7. Thermal depolymerization or pyroly-sis for
				converting waste material to energy;
8. Clean and untreated wood, such as
				pallets;
9. Hydropower (not
				including pumped storage) that does not require a new diversion or impoundment
				of water and that has generator nameplate ratings of ten (10) megawatts or
				less;
10. Fuel cells using hydrogen
				produced by any of the renewable energy technologies in paragraphs 1. through
				9. of this subsection; and
11.
				Other sources of energy not including nuclear that become available after
				November 4, 2008, and are certified as renewable by rule by the
				division;
(O) RES or
				Renewable Energy Standard means sections
				393.1025 and
				393.1030,
				RSMo;
(P) RESRAM or Renewable
				Energy Standard Rate Adjustment Mechanism means a mechanism that allows
				periodic rate adjustments to recover prudently incurred RES compliance costs
				and pass-through to customers the benefits of any savings achieved in meeting
				the requirements of the Renewable Energy Standard;
(Q) RES compliance costs means prudently
				incurred costs, both capital and expense, directly related to compliance with
				the Renewable Energy Standard. Prudently incurred costs do not include any
				increased costs resulting from negligent or wrongful acts or omissions by the
				electric utility;
(R) RES portfolio
				requirements mean the numeric values and other requirements established by
				section 393.1030.1, RSMo, which are-
1. No
				less than two percent (2%) in each calendar year 2011 through 2013;
2. No less than five percent (5%) in each
				calendar year 2014 through 2017;
3.
				No less than ten percent (10%) in each calendar year 2018 through 2020;
				and
4. No less than fifteen percent
				(15%) in each calendar year beginning in 2021.
5. At least two percent (2%) of each RES
				portfolio requirement listed in this section shall be derived from solar
				energy. The RES portfolio requirements for solar energy are-
A. No less than four-hundredths percent
				(0.04%) in each calendar year 2011 through 2013;
B. No less than one-tenth percent (0.1%) in
				each calendar year 2014 through 2017;
C. No less than two-tenths percent (0.2%) in
				each calendar year 2018 through 2020; and
D. No less than three-tenths percent (0.3%)
				in each calendar year beginning in 2021;
(S) The RES revenue requirement means the
				following:
1. All expensed RES compliance
				costs (other than taxes and depreciation associated with capital projects) that
				are included in the electric utility's revenue requirement in the proceeding in
				which the RESRAM is established, continued, modified, or discontinued;
				and
2. The costs (i.e., the return,
				taxes, and depreciation) of any capital projects whose primary purpose is to
				permit the electric utility to comply with any RES requirement. The costs of
				such capital projects shall be those identified on the electric utility's books
				and records as of the last day of the test year, as updated, utilized in the
				proceeding in which the RESRAM is established, continued, modified, or
				discontinued;
(T) Solar
				renewable energy credit or S-REC means a REC created by generation of electric
				energy from solar thermal sources, photovoltaic cells, and photovoltaic
				panels;
(U) Staff means all
				commission employees, except the secretary to the commission, general counsel,
				technical advisory staff as defined by section
				386.135,
				RSMo, hearing officer, or administrative or regulatory law judge;
(V) Standard Test Conditions means solar
				incidence of one (1) kilowatt (kW) per square meter and a cell or panel
				temperature of twenty-five degrees centigrade (25 °C) for measuring the
				capability of solar electrical generating equipment;
(W) Total retail electric sales, or total
				retail electric energy usage, means the megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity
				delivered in a specified time period by an electric utility to its Missouri
				retail customers as reflected in the retail customers' monthly billing
				statements; and
(X) Utility
				renewable energy resources mean those renewable energy resources that are
				owned, controlled, or purchased by the electric utility.