Alaska Admin. Code tit. 3, § 50.980 – Charges and credits for community energy program

(a) An electric utility shall require a subscriber organization to measure the electric energy produced by the organization's community energy facility and report the production and share of energy attributed to each subscriber in the community energy facility during each billing period to the electric utility. The electric utility shall bill each subscriber of the subscriber organization in accordance with (b) of this section.
(b) On receipt of a report under (a) of this section an electric utility shall
1. (1) if the electric utility supplied more electric energy to a subscriber than the energy attributed to the subscriber from the community energy facility during the monthly billing period, bill the subscriber for the remaining electric energy the electric utility supplied to the subscriber at the applicable rates set out in the electric utility's currently effective tariff; or
2. (2) if the electric energy attributed to a subscriber was greater than the electric energy supplied by the electric utility to the subscriber during the monthly billing period, credit the subscriber's account with the amount of the subscriber's proportional share for the excess electric energy supplied to the electric utility by the community energy facility multiplied by the avoided energy rate set out in the electric utility's currently effective tariff, unless a different avoided energy rate has been established in a commission-approved contract.
(c) A dollar amount credited to the account of a subscriber for furnishing electric energy to an electric utility under (b)(2) of this section
1. (1) shall be used to reduce the dollar amount owed by the subscriber in a subsequent monthly billing period; and
2. (2) does not expire or otherwise revert to the electric utility.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) of this section regarding per-kilowatt hour charges, the electric utility may bill a subscriber for applicable charges authorized by the electric utility's approved tariff.
(e) An electric utility may not charge a subscriber that participates in a community energy program an additional fee for standby, capacity, interconnection, or other expenses unless approved by the commission. An electric utility must assess reasonable costs associated with the community energy program to the subscribers of the community energy program. Reasonable costs include administrative, interconnection, regulation, regulatory cost charges, and the determination and application of bill credit rates for the program, subscribers, and subscriber organizations. To ensure that a community energy program does not have an adverse effect on retail rates, the electric utility may not recover costs under this subsection from a nonsubscriber.
(f) An electric utility may petition the commission to change electric rate designs, consistent with 3 AAC 48.500 - 3 AAC 48.560, to include appropriate rate classes for subscribers, if the utility can demonstrate an adverse material rate impact on electric utility consumers that do not participate in the community energy program.
(g) An electric utility shall use unsubscribed energy generated by a community energy facility for the utility's retail energy supply. The electric utility shall compensate the subscriber organization for the unsubscribed energy at the utility's avoided energy rate set out in the electric utility's currently effective tariff.