OAR 860-084-0240
Standard Contracts


(1)

Each electric company must file, for Commission approval, a separate standard contract for the net metering and competitive bidding volumetric incentive rate programs as part of its volumetric incentive rate tariff filing.

(a)

The standard contract will establish an agreement between the electric company and a retail electricity consumer under which the electric company will make volumetric incentive rate payments to participants for energy generated by solar photovoltaic systems installed in the service territory of the electric company for a 15-year period. After the initial 15-year period, the electric company may pay its prevailing avoided cost for energy generated by the solar photovoltaic systems.

(b)

Contracts under the solar photovoltaic pilot programs may only be issued to retail electricity consumers of the electric company; these consumers must be eligible to participate in the pilots.

(2)

Standard Contracts must include at least the following elements:

(a)

Name and address of the retail electricity consumer and the installation address of the eligible system;

(b)

Each standard contract must be based on the volumetric incentive rate (bid option) or volumetric incentive rate formula (net metering option) in place at the time of the capacity reservation for the retail electricity consumer;

(c)

Each standard contract must require a retail electricity consumer installing capacity under the net metered option to transfer generation in excess of eligible energy to the low income bill assistance program of the electric company. Standard contracts must provide for certification by the retail electricity consumer that they are eligible to make wholesale sales of energy at market-based rates;

(d)

Each standard contract must include a date of initiation and a date of contract expiration. If mutually agreed upon by the electric company and consumer, the contract may exceed 15 years;

(e)

Each standard contract must include a section to record retail electricity consumer certifications that:

(A)

Any investor in the qualifying system has not accepted or will not accept incentives from the Energy Trust of Oregon or Oregon state residential or business tax credits for the qualifying system covered by the contract, and

(B)

The system and its individual components are new and have not been previously installed, and meet quality, reliability, and installation criteria approved by the Commission;

(f)

Each standard contract must include a provision under which the retail electricity consumer agrees that the electric company can release lists of all participants in the pilot programs to the Oregon Department of Revenue, the Oregon Department of Energy, the Public Utility Commission, and the Energy Trust of Oregon. The standard contract must contain descriptions of the confidentiality requirements that those receiving this information must follow;

(g)

Each standard contract must require the retail electricity consumer to agree to complete up to three surveys on the effectiveness of the pilot programs in order to remain eligible for participation in the pilot program. Each standard contract must also include the retail electricity consumer’s agreement that the electric company may release information obtained from the surveys to the Commission and the Energy Trust of Oregon;

(h)

Monthly payments must be made directly to the retail electricity consumer or to a qualifying assignee;

(i)

Each standard contract must allow a retail electricity consumer to assign payments to a single qualifying assignee. Contracts must allow the retail electricity consumer to change the assignee at any time during the contract term;

(j)

Each standard contract must allow the transfer of an existing retail electricity consumer’s contract under the pilot program to another retail electricity consumer eligible to contract with the electric company under the pilot program, consistent with OAR 860-084-0130 (Ownership and Installation)(3).

(k)

Disclosure that payments under the volumetric incentive rate bid option may be taxable as income under Oregon and Federal Tax law and that an eligible system may be subject to property tax in the State of Oregon;

(l)

Name and business address of solar installer or contractor, name and business address of system financer, and description of the photovoltaic equipment package;.

(m)

For net metered systems, participants must certify that the system is sized such that their qualifying system complies with OAR 860-084-0100 (Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Programs)(2)(e).

(3)

A retail electricity consumer found by the Commission to have made a false certification is no longer eligible for the Volumetric Incentive Rate Pilot Programs and any contract entered under the Volumetric Incentive Rate Pilot Programs is void.
860‑084‑0000
Scope and Applicability of Solar Photovoltaic Programs
860‑084‑0010
Definitions for Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Programs
860‑084‑0070
Renewable Energy Certificates and Compliance with the Renewable Portfolio Standards
860‑084‑0100
Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Programs
860‑084‑0120
Systems Eligible for Enrollment in Pilot Programs
860‑084‑0130
Ownership and Installation
860‑084‑0140
Assignment of Payments
860‑084‑0150
Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Capacity Limit
860‑084‑0160
Measurement of Capacity under the Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Program
860‑084‑0170
Distributing Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Capacity by Electric Company
860‑084‑0180
Distributing Electric Company Capacity Limit by Allocation Period
860‑084‑0190
Distributing Capacity by System Size
860‑084‑0195
Mechanisms for Reserving Capacity
860‑084‑0200
Capacity Reservation, Timing, and Volumetric Incentive Rates
860‑084‑0210
Capacity Reservation, Timing, and Duration
860‑084‑0220
Capacity Availability
860‑084‑0230
Application for Capacity Reservation
860‑084‑0240
Standard Contracts
860‑084‑0250
Billing and Payment Requirements
860‑084‑0260
Interconnection Requirements for Solar Photovoltaic Pilot Program
860‑084‑0270
Authorization to Interconnect
860‑084‑0280
Interconnection Cost Responsibility
860‑084‑0300
Insurance
860‑084‑0310
Level 1 System Interconnection Review
860‑084‑0320
Level 2 System Interconnection Review
860‑084‑0330
Level 3 System Interconnection Review
860‑084‑0340
Installation, Operation, Maintenance, and Testing of Contracted Systems
860‑084‑0350
Requirements after Approval of a Solar Photovoltaic Interconnection
860‑084‑0360
Volumetric Incentive Rates and Payments – Net Metering Option
860‑084‑0365
Volumetric Incentive Rate Bidding Option
860‑084‑0370
Resource Value
860‑084‑0380
Cost Recovery and Rate Impacts
860‑084‑0390
Cost Recovery Mechanism
860‑084‑0400
Data Collection
860‑084‑0420
Compliance with Pilot Program Requirements
860‑084‑0430
Data Availability
860‑084‑0440
Pilot Program Overhead
860‑084‑0450
Reports to the Legislature
Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

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