Alaska Admin. Code tit. 3, § 50.970 – Community energy tariff

(a) Not later than May 31, 2026, each electric utility required to provide a community energy program under 3 AAC 50.950 shall submit a community energy tariff under the procedures set out in 3 AAC 48.220 and 3 AAC 48.270 that includes
1. (1) interconnection rules, including criteria and requirements for interconnection, processes, and fees to facilitate cost-effective and nondiscriminatory interconnection of community energy facilities; interconnection rules may not place a greater burden on an interconnecting community energy facility than the utility's existing interconnection tariff placed on other nonutility generators of similar capacity and configuration;
2. (2) requirements for liability insurance coverage;
3. (3) requirements for the installation of an external disconnect switch, unless the utility determines additional disconnection capability is not necessary, and the option to
  1. (A) install an external disconnect switch in a location readily accessible by utility personnel, as designated by the utility; or
  2. (B) agree to allow the utility to disconnect both the community energy facility and the community energy facility's load from the utility electric system when disconnection is necessary under circumstances described in the utility's community energy tariff;
4. (4) rules for disconnection of service;
5. (5) the maximum aggregate nameplate capacity for all eligible community energy facilities; if the maximum nameplate capacity for all eligible community energy facilities identified in a utility's tariff is less than 5 MW, in addition to the information required by AS 42.05.727(a)(2), the utility shall provide:
  1. (A) an explanation of how the requested maximum was derived;
  2. (B) an objective measure of the impact on rates if the maximum is breached;
  3. (C) an objective measure of the impact on reliability if the maximum is breached; and
  4. (D) an explanation of why the impacts described in (B) and (C) would result in rates or service quality that are not just and reasonable;
6. (6) requirements for inverters, converters, controllers, and interconnection system equipment, and required system upgrades for use by non-utility generation; in developing those requirements, the utility may use Underwriters' Laboratories standard 1741, Standard for Inverters, Converters, Controllers and Interconnection System Equipment for Use With Distributed Energy Resources, as applicable and as supplemented or other similar national standards;
7. (7) information a subscriber organization must provide to the electric utility that is necessary to timely calculate the charges and credits established in 3 AAC 50.980;
8. (8) procedures for the subscriber organization to timely report planned and unplanned facility outages and unavailability;
9. (9) a procedure for consumers to enroll in the community energy program owned by an electric utility; and
10. (10) terms, conditions, fees and credits for subscription to the community energy program owned by an electric utility.
(b) An electric utility may impose reasonable interconnection charges as approved by the commission, including connection costs, switching, metering, transmission, distribution, safety provisions, administration, and other costs directly incurred as a result of the interconnection, but only to the extent that such costs are in excess of the corresponding costs which the utility would have incurred if the utility had not engaged in the interconnection.
(c) An electric utility may recover the utility's reasonable costs associated with administering a community energy program if the additional costs are in excess of the costs which the utility would have incurred if the utility had not engaged in the interconnection.
(d) An electric utility may provide a separate rate approved by commission for capacity provided by a community energy facility through energy storage.
(e) If approved by the commission, an electric utility may charge a subscriber organization that owns a community energy facility reasonable fees to cover the incremental costs of integrating the energy from the facility into the electric utility's operations. The utility must demonstrate that such costs only arise if the community energy facility interconnects with electric utility system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a community energy facility with a nameplate capacity of less 100 kW does not generate material incremental integration costs.