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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 1. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY GENERALLY · Part 3. SALE OF ELECTRICITY BY FACILITY GENERATING ELECTRICITY, STEAM, OR OTHER FORMS OF ENERGY FOR ITS OWN CONSUMPTION

46-3-55. Measurement and payment of energy flow.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. Consistent with the other provisions of this chapter, the energy flow shall be measured and paid for in the following manner:

  2. (1)

    If the distributed generation facilities are connected to the electric service provider’s distribution system on the customer generator’s side of the customer’s meter, the electric service provider shall:#

    1. (A)

      Measure the electricity produced or consumed during the billing period, in accordance with normal metering practices using bidirectional metering;#

    2. (B)

      When the electricity supplied by the electric service provider exceeds the electricity generated by the customer’s distributed generation, the electricity shall be billed by the electric service provider, in accordance with tariffs filed with the commission; or#

    3. (C)

      When electricity generated by the customer’s distributed generation system exceeds the electricity supplied by the electric service provider, the customer generator:#

      1. (i)

        Shall be billed for the appropriate customer charges for that billing period; and#

      2. (ii)

        Shall be credited for the excess kilowatt-hours generated during the billing period at an agreed to rate as filed with the commission, with this kilowatt-hour credit appearing on the bill for the billing period; or#

  3. (2)

    If the distributed generation facilities are connected to the electric service provider’s distribution system on the electric service provider’s side of the customer’s meter, the electric service provider shall:#

    1. (A)

      Measure the electricity produced or consumed during the billing period, in accordance with normal metering practices using single directional metering;#

    2. (B)

      Charge the customer generator a minimum monthly fee as established in Code Section 46-3-54; and#

    3. (C)

      If there is electricity generated by the customer generator for the billing period, the customer generator shall be compensated at an agreed to rate as filed with the commission.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-3-55, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 1149, § 1.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2001, “; or” was substituted for a period at the end of division (1)(C)(ii).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, pages 187 to 188; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.