Schedule 97 – Avoided Cost Energy Rate

Effective for all bills rendered after October 1, 2021

Applicability

To residential and general service/commercial Customers who have installed qualifying generating equipment ("Net Metering Facility") and have entered into a Net-Metering Interconnection Agreement with the PUD pursuant to ORS 757.300.

Net metering measures the difference between the electricity supplied by the PUD and the electricity generated by a Customer's Net Metering Facility that may be fed back to the PUD.

A customer may operate a Net Metering Facility using solar, wind, fuel cells, hydroelectric, digester gas, or waste, as identified the PUD’s Net-Metering Interconnection Agreement, where the generating nameplate capacity is 25 KW or less for Residential Customers and 199 KW or less for General Service/Commercial Customers.

Character of Service

60 hertz alternating current at such phases and voltage as the PUD may have available.

Monthly Charge

The Customer shall be billed each month for the applicable base charge and the applicable retail rate for all energy consumed by the Customer that is greater than the energy actually generated by the Net Metering Facility for such month. The monthly kWh shall be offset by any available Credits from the Net Metering Facility.

Energy generated by the Net Metering Facility for a month that is in excess of the energy consumed by the Customer during such month shall offset future consumed energy at the customer applicable rate schedule until the February bill. Any Credits that remain unapplied to the Customer's accounts at the February bill of each year shall be credited or paid to the Customer, at PUD's election, no later than the billing cycle ending in March of that year.

Basis For Power Purchase Price

Energy generated in excess of the energy consumed by the customer will be credited to the Customer's account using the PUD's Avoided Cost Energy Credit rate. Avoided Costs are defined in 18 CFR 292.101(6) as "The incremental costs to an electric utility of electric energy or capacity or both which, but for the purchase from the qualifying facility or qualifying facilities, such utility would generate itself or purchase from another source."

The PUD's Avoided Cost is based on the forecasted BPA PF wholesale power rate annualized for the current BPA fiscal year ending September 30.

Avoided Cost Rate

The Avoided Cost Rate represents the purchase price per kWh the PUD will credit for all electricity produced and delivered to a Point of Delivery within the PUD's service territory in excess of energy consumed by the customer pursuant to a Net-Metering Interconnection Agreement.

The Avoided Cost Rate is: 3.83¢ per kWh

Other Charges & Conditions

The services under this rate schedule are subject to other applicable charges, rules, rates, and conditions described in the PUD's General Terms, Conditions, Rules, and Regulations for Electric Service and the Net-Metering Interconnection Agreement (PDF).