Net energy metering.

Existing law relative to private energy producers requires every electric utility, including electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, to develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering and to make this contract or tariff available to eligible customer-generators upon request for generation by a renewable electrical generation facility. Existing law provides that an electric utility that is not a large electrical corporation is not obligated to provide net energy metering when the combined total peak demand of all electricity used by eligible customer-generators in the service area exceeds 5% of the aggregate customer peak demand of the electric utility. This bill would define the "aggregate customer peak demand" for the purposes of calculating the net energy metering program limit for electric utilities that have more than 25,000 service connections, but are not large electrical corporations. The bill would dictate the manner of calculating aggregate customer peak demand if certain information is unavailable, as specified.