Pennsylvania SB 1019: An Act amending the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213), known as the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act, further providing for definitions, for interconnection standards for customer-generator facilities and for interagency responsibilities.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 1354
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1019
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, KIM, HAYWOOD, VOGEL, HUTCHINSON,
ROBINSON, FLYNN AND MILLER, DECEMBER 10, 2025
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
DECEMBER 10, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213),
entitled "An act providing for the sale of electric energy
generated from renewable and environmentally beneficial
sources, for the acquisition of electric energy generated
from renewable and environmentally beneficial sources by
electric distribution and supply companies and for the powers
and duties of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission,"
further providing for definitions, for interconnection
standards for customer-generator facilities and for
interagency responsibilities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "customer-generator" and "net
metering" in section 2 of the act of November 30, 2004
(P.L.1672, No.213), known as the Alternative Energy Portfolio
Standards Act, are amended and the section is amended by adding
definitions to read:
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Abandoned mine land." An area of land no longer in use
that, in connection with extracting a natural resource from its
natural deposits in the earth by any means, has had material
placed upon, under or above the surface.
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"Avoided cost." The average locational marginal price of
energy, capacity and transmission and distribution grid services
values, as determined by the commission, in the applicable
transmission zone over the customer-generator's billing period.
"Brownfield." A property the expansion, redevelopment or
reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential
presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.
"Capped landfill." A capped facility for disposal of trash
or garbage in which waste is buried between layers of earth and
covered by a cap.
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"Corporation." A body corporate, joint-stock company or
association, domestic or foreign, and the body corporate's,
joint-stock company's or association's lessee, assignee,
trustee, receiver or other successor in interest that has a
power or privilege of a corporation not possessed by an
individual or partnership. The term does not include a municipal
corporation, except as otherwise expressly provided in this act,
or a bona fide cooperative association that furnishes service on
a nonprofit basis only to the association's stockholders or
members.
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"Customer-generator." A [nonutility owner or operator of a
net metered distributed generation system with] retail electric
customer that is a nonutility that owns and operates, leases or
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operates or contracts with a third party that owns or operates
an alternative energy system that meets all of the following
criteria:
(1) Has a nameplate capacity of not greater than 50
kilowatts if installed at a residential service or not larger
than 3,000 kilowatts at other customer service locations,
except for customers whose systems are above three megawatts
and up to five megawatts who make their systems available to
operate in parallel with the electric utility during grid
emergencies as defined by the regional transmission
organization or where a microgrid is in place for the primary
or secondary purpose of maintaining critical infrastructure,
such as homeland security assignments, emergency services
facilities, hospitals, traffic signals, wastewater treatment
plants or telecommunications facilities, provided that
technical rules for operating generators interconnected with
facilities of an electric distribution company, electric
cooperative or municipal electric system have been
promulgated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
(2) Has electric load, independent of the alternative
energy system, behind the meter and the point of
interconnection of the alternative energy system. To be
independent of the alternative energy system, the electric
load must have a purpose other than to support operation,
maintenance or administration of the alternative energy
system.
(3) Is sized so the alternative energy system will
generate not more than the customer-generator's annual
electric consumption at the interconnection meter location
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when combined with all qualifying virtual meter aggregation
locations as of the interconnection application date. The
following shall apply:
(i) For existing service location accounts, annual
electric consumpti