SB 97 – Net Metering

SB 97, introduced by Sen. Errington, requires the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to amend certain rules (170 IAC 4-4.5) it has with respect to “net metering.” When I first read this, I figured the term had to do with measuring use of the Internet. It actually has to do with allowing electric customers to supply power back to the utility and receive a credit for the supply.

I don’t know all the utility jargon, but it appears to expand the classes of customers to which a utility must offer net metering from residential and K-12 schools to just about everyone, including commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. The rules must “allow a net metering customer to interconnect a generating facility with a nameplate capacity of two (2) megawatts or less to a distribution facility of an electric utility.” And the rules must allow interconnection for power generated through renewable sources.