The petition requests Commission approval for the implementation of a Community Distributed Generation Platform (CDG-P) program at National Grid. The CDG-P program includes consolidated billing for CDG projects based on a “net credit” model and customer acquisition and turnover management program for CDG projects. The CDG program allows utility customers to receive bill credits based on the electric production of an eligible distributed energy resources managed by a CDG Sponsor. Oftentimes, that CDG Sponsor bills the customers each month for their subscription to the CDG project. Currently, while the bill credits appear directly on customers’ utility bills, the CDG Sponsor must send the customer a separate bill for the subscription and must separately collect the subscription charge. Consolidated billing would enable the CDG Sponsor to instead inform the utility of the subscription charge, which would then be added to the utility bill and remitted to the CDG Sponsor by the utility. The subscription charge would be offset by the bill credits; under the “net credit” model, the net credit after the subscription charge is applied and would appear on the customer’s bill.

The full text of the petition and the full record of the proceeding may be reviewed online at the Department of Public Service web page: www.dps.ny.gov. The Commission may adopt, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the action proposed and may resolve related matters.

Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.

(19-M-0463SP2)