N.H. Admin. Code § Puc 2204.02

Current through Register No. 50, December 12, 2024
Section Puc 2204.02 - Request for Anonymized Customer-Specific Information from Utilities
(a) After the commission has approved a final aggregation plan pursuant to Puc 2204.01 and the legislative body of a municipality or county has voted to approve the community power aggregation plan each utility serving the CPA service area shall provide to the municipality or county, within 30 calendar days of a written request therefor, the following anonymized customer-specific usage and related information for all customers currently receiving default service provided by the utility within the CPA service area, sorted or identified by customer rate class:
(1) Individual capacity tags for the current power year beginning on June 1, and, if known and readily available, the prior power year and the next power year;
(2) The most recent 24 months of usage data in kWh for each reported interval if available, or 12 months otherwise
(3) The meter reading date or utility reference number cycle for each customer meter;
(4) Whether the customer net meters and, if so, whether under original net energy metering terms available prior to September 1, 2017, or new alternative net metering terms and tariffs that have been available since September 1, 2017, or any subsequent successor terms and tariffs
(5) Whether the customer is a group net metering host or a member of a net metering group with on-bill crediting, generally, if such information is known and readily available;
(6) Whether a group net metered customer-generator operates as a low-moderate income community solar project pursuant to RSA 362-F:2, X-a and the commission's Puc 900 rules, if such information is known and readily available
(7) The size in kW-AC, or if not known, the size in kW-DC, of any such net-metered generation referenced in (5) above, if such information is known and readily available; and
(8) The year and month such distributed generation referenced in (7) above was placed into service, if such information is known and readily available.
(b) The information required to be provided pursuant to (a) above shall be provided in machine-readable digital electronic format, such as a database, comma-separated value or spreadsheet file, but not in the form of scanned images.
(c) No individual customer data, as defined in RSA 363:37, I, shall be provided to a CPA in response to a request made pursuant to (a) above.
(d) With respect to the data required to be provided pursuant to (a)(1) and (2) above:
(1) If there are fewer than 4 distinct customers in any one non-residential customer rate class reporting group or if any one customer comprises 50% or more of the total usage over the most recent 12-month period for that reporting group, such customer data shall be combined with the customer data of the most similar rate class or classes and shall be reported as the combined rate classes, provided that the overall reporting group contains at least 4 distinct customers and no one customer comprises 50 percent or more of the total usage over the most recent 12-month period for that reporting group;
(2) If there are fewer than 10 distinct customers in any one residential customer rate class reporting group, such customer data shall be combined with the customer data of the most similar rate class or classes and shall be reported as the combined rate classes, provided that the overall reporting group contains at least 10 distinct customers;
(3) If there are fewer than 4 distinct non-residential customers or fewer than 10 distinct residential customers, such usage data shall be reported together without identifying the type of customer, provided that the overall group contains at least 10 distinct customers and no one customer constitutes more than 25% of the total usage over the most recent 12- month period; and
(4) If the criteria in subparagraph (3) above are not met and there are at least 4 distinct customers, the total annual usage of all such customers, rather than monthly, shall be provided for the most recent 12-month period available without identifying the number of such customers, other than "less than 10 customers," and if not, than no usage or customer counts shall be provided, other than "less than 4 customers."
(e) An approved CPA may request to have the data provided by the utility updated to the most recent month available, but not more frequently than once every 6 months after the initial request.

N.H. Admin. Code § Puc 2204.02

Derived from Volume XLII Number 45, Filed November 10, 2022, Proposed by #13457, Effective 10/12/2022, Expires 10/12/2032