Texas PUC Approves Rules To Permit Non-Customers To Sign DG Interconnection Agreements
December 19,2016
The Texas PUC adopted without substantive modification a proposal for adoption concerning the distributed generation interconnection rulemaking, which addresses the ability for non-customer third parties to sign IAs
The approved proposal for adoption allows the end-use customer either to be the non-utility party to the IA (identified as Option 1) or otherwise to elect one of the following entities to be the non-utility party to the IA on their behalf: the entity who owns the distributed generation (DG) facility but is not the end-use customer (DG owner or an Option 2 entity), the owner of the premises at which the DG facility is located (premises owner or an Option 3 entity), or the person who by contract is assigned ownership rights to energy produced by the DG facility (an Option 4 entity).