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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 20. Public Utilities And Telecommunications
Agency 5. State Corporation Commission
Chapter 340. Rules Governing Shared Solar Program
11/21/2024

20VAC5-340-90. Recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

A. Subscriber organizations. Prior to commercial operation of any shared solar facility, each subscriber organization shall report to the commission and the applicable utility its achievement of contracting with low-income customers. Thereafter, this report shall be updated and filed semi-annually with the commission by January 31 and July 31, respectively, of each calendar year for the previous calendar year, commencing in 2024. When making the annual report, the subscriber organization shall provide the following information:

1. Total number of subscribers and the amount of kilowatts subscribed to by each subscriber;

2. Total number of low-income customers and the amount of kilowatts subscribed to by each low-income customer;

3. Detailed plan for meeting its low-income customer target in the upcoming year if the target was not met for the annual period covered by the report; and

4. Certification that there is no subscriber whose subscription size exceeds the subscriber's average annual bill over the past 12 months for the customer account to which the subscription is attributed.

The utility shall maintain a consolidated list of active subscriber organizations, including the number of low-income customers for each organization.

Each subscriber organization shall retain a record of all disclosure forms, low-income customer proof of eligibility, and subscriber allocation lists for a period of at least three years. Each subscriber organization shall retain copies of subscriber contracts for a period of at least one year from the date of their expiration. Each of these documents must be made available immediately upon request from the commission or commission staff.

A subscriber organization shall retain customer billing and account records and complaint records for at least three years.

B. Affordable housing providers. Affordable housing providers subscribing on behalf of their low-income tenants shall annually, on or before January 31, commencing in 2024, submit a written report for the shared solar program to the commission staff describing how bill savings or other tangible benefits were provided to the tenants in the last year. The report shall include a detailed accounting and expense report for the bill savings achieved.

C. Utility. The utility shall maintain conformance with the commission's Regulations Governing Interconnection of Small Electric Generators (20VAC5-314), and specifically, 20VAC5-314-130.

Statutory Authority

§§ 12.1-13 and 56-594.3 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 37, Issue 11, eff. January 1, 2021.

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