TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 8: UTILITIES
§ 8196. Renewable Energy Purchases from Commonwealth Utility Corporation Customers. (a) Pursuant to Public Law 15-87 [4 CMC §§ 8521-8573], a group of eligible customer-generators who aggregate their entitlements to sell renewable energy to the CUC power system and co-locate the generating equipment at a site that is remote from one or more of them shall have the same rights to sell renewable energy to CUC as does an individual eligible customer-generator. (b) A contract entered into between CUC and an eligible customer-generator (or a group of such eligible customer-generators) under Public Law 15-87 shall not be deemed to be a contract for a utility service as described in 4 CMC §§ 8112 or 8141. (c) A customer-generator, self-generator, performance management contractor, and an entity which sells power at wholesale to CUC shall not be included in the definition of public utilities under 4 CMC § 8402(f) (defining "public utility" under the Public Utilities Commission law (P.L. 15-35)). Source: PL 16-17 § 9, modified. Commission Comment: The Commission modified this section pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g). The Commission inserted the bracketed citation and changed “§ 8402(e)” to “§ 8402(f)” in subsection (c) .