48:3-87.12 Application, approval process.

6. a. No later than 120 days after the date of enactment of P.L.2018, c.17 (C.48:3-87.8 et al.), the board shall establish an application and approval process to certify public entities to act as a host customer for remote net metering generating capacity. A public entity certified to act as a host customer may allocate credits to other public entities within the same electric public utility service territory. A copy of the agreement between the public entity certified to act as a host customer and other public entities designated to receive credits shall be provided to the electric public utility before remote net metering credits may be applied to a customer bill. A public entity certified to act as a host customer may host a solar energy project with a capacity up to the total average usage of the electric public utility accounts for the host public entity customer.

b. The board shall establish a remote net metering application process to approve as the primary account holder a certified public entity that is the host customer and the other public entities designated to receive credits.

c. The board shall require the owner of a solar energy project to pay a certified public entity a pro-rated public sponsor fee of $10,000 per megawatt, up to a 10-megawatt allowance for each public entity. The board shall require each participating customer to pay at least 50 percent of the societal benefits charge established pursuant to section 12 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-60).

L.2018, c.17, s.6.