North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 8 › Article 11 - RESOURCE PLANNING AND CERTIFICATION › Section 11 R08-66 - REGISTRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES; ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The following terms shall be defined as
				  provided in
				  G.S.
				  62-133.8: "electric power supplier";
				  "renewable energy certificate"; and "renewable energy facility."
(b) The owner, including an electric power
				  supplier, of each renewable energy facility, whether or not required to obtain
				  a certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  62-110.1, that intends for renewable energy
				  certificates it earns to be eligible for use by an electric power supplier to
				  comply with
				  G.S.
				  62-133.8, or for its facility to participate
				  in the Competitive Procurement of Renewable Energy Program, shall register the
				  facility with the Commission. The registration statement shall be in the form
				  adopted by the Commission, may be filed separately or together with an
				  application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, or with a
				  report of proposed construction by a person exempt from the certification
				  requirement. All relevant renewable energy facilities shall be registered prior
				  to their having RECs issued in the North Carolina Renewable Energy Tracking
				  System (NC-RETS) pursuant to Rule R8-67(h). Contracts for power supplied by an
				  agency of the federal government are exempt from the requirement to register
				  and file annually with the Commission if the renewable energy certificates
				  associated with the power are bundled with the power purchased by the electric
				  power supplier.
(1) The owner of each
				  renewable energy facility that has not previously done so, including a facility
				  that is located outside of the State of North Carolina, shall include in its
				  registration statement the following information:
(i) The full and correct name, business
				  address, electronic mailing address, and telephone number of the facility
				  owner;
(ii) A statement of whether
				  the facility owner is an individual, a partnership, or a corporation and, if a
				  partnership, the name and business address of each general partner and, if a
				  corporation, the state and date of incorporation and the name, business
				  telephone number, electronic mailing address, and business address, of an
				  individual duly authorized to act as corporate agent for the purpose of the
				  application and, if a foreign corporation, whether domesticated in North
				  Carolina;
(iii) The nature of the
				  renewable energy facility, including its technology, the type and source of its
				  power or fuel(s); whether it produces electricity, useful thermal energy, or
				  both; and the facility's projected dependable capacity in kilowatts AC and/or
				  British thermal units per hour, as well as its maximum nameplate
				  capacity;
(iv) The E911 address of
				  the facility, the county in which the proposed facility will be physically
				  located, and GPS coordinates of the approximate center of the proposed facility
				  site to the nearest second or one thousandth of a degree;
(v) A map, such as a county road map, with
				  the location indicated on the map;
(vi) The ownership of the site and, if the
				  site owner is other than the facility owner, the facility owner's legal
				  interest in the site;
(vii) A
				  complete list of all federal and state (not local) licenses, permits, and
				  exemptions required for construction and operation of the facility, and a
				  statement of whether each has been obtained or applied for. A copy of those
				  that have been obtained should be filed with the application. Wind facilities
				  with multiple turbines, where each turbine is licensed separately, may provide
				  copies of such approvals for one such turbine of each type in the facility, but
				  shall attest that approvals for all of the turbines are available for
				  inspection;
(viii) The date the
				  facility began operating. If the facility is not yet operating, the owner shall
				  provide the facility's projected in-service date;
(ix) If the facility is already operating,
				  the owner shall provide information regarding the amount of energy produced by
				  the facility, net of station use, for the most recent 12-month or calendar-year
				  period. Energy production data for a shorter time period is acceptable for
				  facilities that have not yet operated for a full year;
(x) The name of the entity that does (or
				  will) read the facility's energy production meter(s) for the purpose of
				  renewable energy certificate issuance;
(xi) For thermal energy facilities, describe
				  the method to be used to determine the facility's thermal energy production, in
				  Btus per hour, that is eligible for REC issuance;
(xii) Whether the facility participates in a
				  REC tracking system, and if so, which one. If the facility does not currently
				  participate in a REC tracking system, which tracking system the owner
				  anticipates will be used for the purpose of REC issuance; and
(xiii) If this facility has already been the
				  subject of a proceeding or submittal before the Commission, such as a Report of
				  Proposed Construction or a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity,
				  provide the Commission Docket Number, if available.