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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 3019
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE FOGLE.
5169H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o amend chapter 386, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to community solar
facilities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 386, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
2 known as section 386.1050, to read as follows:
386.1050. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
2 (1) "Bill cred it", the commission-appr oved monetary value of each kilowatt-
3 hour of electricity generated by a community solar facility and allocated to a
4 subscriber's monthly bill to offset the subscriber's r etail electric bill;
5 (2) "Community solar facility", a facility that:
6 (a) Generates electricity by means of a solar photovoltaic device wher eby
7 subscribers r eceive a bill cr edit for the electricity generated based on the size of the
8 subscriptions;
9 (b) Is located within this state;
10 (c) Is connected to and delivers electricity to a distribution system operated by a
11 r etail electric supplier operating in this state and in compliance with r equir ements
12 under this section;
13 (d) Has a nameplate capacity great er than one hundred AC kilowatts and no
14 gr eater than five thousand AC kilowatts;
15 (e) Has at least ten subscribers;
16 (f) Credi ts some or all of the electricity generated fro m a community solar
17 facility to the bills of subscribers; and
EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
18 (g) May be located rem otely from a subscriber's premis es and shall not be
19 r equir ed to prov ide energy to an on-site load;
20 (3) "Community solar organization", an entity that owns or operates one or
21 mor e community solar facilities;
22 (4) "Customer -generator", the same meaning as set forth in section 386.890;
23 (5) "Low-income customer", a ret ail res idential end user of a ret ail electric
24 supplier whose household income adjusted for family size does not exceed either two
25 hundr ed per cent of the federal poverty level or eighty perc ent of the are a median
26 income, whichever is higher . Owners or managers of apartment buildings or rent al
27 units that serve low-income customers shall be consider ed low-income customers if fifty
28 per cent or mor e of the tenants qualify under this definition. Certain entities,
29 organizations, and institutions that ar e focused on social welfare and that serve the low-
30 income customer community may also qualify including, but not limited to, homeless
31 shelters, halfway houses, soup kitchens, foster homes, orphanages, and other similar
32 organizations;
33 (6) "Retail electric supplier", any municipal utility , electrical corporation
34 r egulated under chapter 386, or rural electric cooperative under chapter 394 that
35 pr ovides ret ail electric service in this state;
36 (7) "Subscriber", a reta il customer of a ret ail electric supplier who owns one or
37 mor e subscriptions to a community solar facility inter connected with the customer's
38 r etail electric supplier . "Subscriber" shall include a ret ail customer who owns a portion
39 of a community solar facility . A subscriber's subscription size shall be one hundr ed
40 twenty per cent or less of the twelve-month r olling average kilowatt-hour usage for any
41 one subscriber meter;
42 (8) "Subscriber administrator", an entity that recrui ts and enroll s subscribers,
43 administers subscriber participation in community solar facilities, and manages the
44 subscription relat ionship between subscribers and a r etail electric supplier;
45 (9) "Subscription", a contract between a subscriber and subscriber
4 6 administrator of a community solar facility that entitles the subscriber to a bill credi t
47 against the subscriber's ret ail electric bill;
48 (10) "Unsubscribed energy", the output of a community solar facility , measur ed
49 in kilowatt-hours, that is not allocated to subscribers.
50 2. Each reta il electric supplier shall implement a thr ee-year community solar
51 pilot progra m to run during calendar years 2027 thr ough 2029. Retail electric suppliers
52 shall allow subscriber administrators and owners or operators of community solar
53 facilities to recrui t customers as subscribers and shall pr ocess subscribers' bill credi ts as
54 r equir ed by subdivision (5) of subsection 3 of this section. Each reta il electric supplier's
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55 community solar pilot pr ogram shall achieve subscribership equal to two per cent of the
56 r etail electric supplier's electricity sales for the pr evious year for each of the thr ee years
57 of the pilot prog ram.
58 3. (1) A community solar facility shall be authorized under the following
59 conditions:
60 (a) A community solar facility may be built, owned, or operated by a third-party
61 entity under contract with an owner or operator of a community solar facility or a
62 subscriber administrator . A subscriber administrator may contract to administer bill
63 cr edits to the subscriber's electricity bill, generated by the subscriber's shar e of the
64 community solar facility , subject to the requi rem ents of this section. A subscriber
65 administrator that pr ovides bill cred its to a subscriber under this section shall not be
66 consider ed an electrical corporation or public utility under section 386.020 for purposes
67 of determining jurisdiction of the commission;
68 (b) The owner or operator of a community solar facility may serve as a
69 subscriber administrator or may contract with a third party to serve as a subscriber
70 administrator on behalf of the owner or operator . Nothing in this section shall prev ent a
71 r etail electric supplier fro m owning or operating a community solar facility or fr om
72 acting as a subscriber administrator as part of its own community solar pilot prog ram;
73 (c) Except as pro vided under paragraph (d) of this subdivision, the price paid
74 for a subscription to a community solar facility shall not be subject to r egulation by the
75 commission; and
76 (d) No later than nine months after August 28, 2026, the commission shall
77 establish the value of the bill cred it for each reta il electric supplier to offset each
78 subscriber's ret ail electric bill for each kilowatt-hour subscribed fro m a community
79 solar facility . The commission shall establish the bill credi t value in such a way as to
80 allow for the creat ion, financing, accessibility , and operation of community solar
81 facilities and to maximize customer participation so as to meet the goal of two percen t of
82 electricity sales per year as requ ired by subsection 2 of this section. The commission
83 shall establish an additional bill cr edit value for subscribers who are low-income
84 customers in such a way as to ensur e that low-income customers save money on their
85 r etail electric bills.
86 (2) A ret ail electric supplier shall allow for the transferability and portability of
87 subscriptions, including allowing a subscriber to reta in a subscription to a community
88 solar facility if the subscriber relo cates within the same ret ail electric supplier's
89 territory .
90 (3) On a monthly basis, a subscriber administrator shall update the subscriber
91 administrator's list of subscribers and pro vide all of the following information about
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92 each subscriber to the ret ail electric supplier in a standardized electr onic format
93 appr oved by the commission for the purpose of bill cred it to subscribers:
94 (a) The name, addr ess, account number , and meter number;
95 (b) The kilowatt-hours of electricity generation attributable to each subscriber;
96 and
97 (c) If a subscriber administrator is using the r etail electric supplier's billing
98 methods to collect subscription fees, the subscription fee for the month owed by each
99 subscriber to the subscriber administrator .
100 (4) A subscriber administrator or third party owning or operating a community
101 solar facility shall not be consider ed a ret ail electric supplier or an electric generation
102 pr ovider solely as a r esult of involvement with a community solar facility as defined by
103 this chapter .
104 (5) Retail electric suppliers shall have the following duties:
105 (a) On a monthly basis, a reta il electric supplier shall pro vide to a subscriber
106 administrator a r eport in a standardized electr onic format indicating the total value of
107 the bill cr edit generated by the community solar facility in the prior month and the
108 amount of the bill credi t applied to each subscriber;
109 (b) A r etail electric supplier shall pr ovide a bill cr edit to a subscriber's next
110 monthly electric bill for the prop ortional output of a community solar facility
111 attributable to the subscriber in the same manner as if the solar facility were located
112 on the customer's pr operty;
113 (c) If requ ested by a subscriber administrator , a ret ail electric supplier shall
114 include a subscriber's subscription fee on the monthly bill and forward the collected
115 subscription fees to the subscriber administrator on a monthly basis; and
116 (d) No later than one year after the effective date of this section, a ret ail electric
117 supplier shall make available and update, in a commer cially r easonable manner , a
118 system map showing the loading of the distribution system and indicating where in the
119 service territory the distribution system could accommodate new solar generation.
120 (6) Retail electric suppliers shall be compensated in the following manner:
121 (a) A subscriber administrator shall compensate a r etail electric supplier for the
122 r etail electric supplier's reas onable dir ect costs of inter connection of a community solar
123 facility . Such compensation shall be in the form of a one-time payment upon
124 inter connection; and
125 (b) A r etail electric supplier shall be entitled to rec over its r easonable dir ect costs
126 of complying with the r equir ements of this section and enabling a community solar
127 facility within its service territory including, but not limited to, added billing costs and
128 added costs of net metering and intercon nection for community solar facilities. These
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129 r easonable dir ect costs shall be in the form of an annual fee invoiced to the subscriber
130 administrator based on the total final system size of the community solar facility .
131 (7) Each community solar facility shall be subscribed with at least ten percen t
132 low-income customers and twenty per cent res idential customers.
133 (8) A re tail electric supplier shall purc hase unsubscribed energy fr om a
134 community solar facility at the ret ail electric supplier's avoided cost as appr oved by the
135 commission. No later than nine months after August 28, 2026, the commission shall
136 establish r egulations necessary to effectuate this section regard ing the pur chase of
137 unsubscribed energy .
138 (9) No entity , affiliated entity , or entities under common control shall develop,
139 own, or operate mor e than one community solar facility on the same par cel or
140 contiguous parcel s of land.
141 4. Inter connection standards for community solar facilities under one hundr ed
142 kilowatts shall be the same as those for customer -generators under section 386.890. For
143 systems larger than one hundre d kilowatts, the commission shall develop technical and
144 net metering inter connection rules for customer -generators intending to operate
145 community solar facilities or ren ewable on-site generators in parallel with the electric
146 utility grid, consistent with rules defined in other states within the service regi on of the
147 r egional transmission organization that manages the transmission system in any part of
148 this state. In developing its rules, the commission shall convene a stakeholder pr ocess to
149 develop statewide technical and net metering rules for customer generators with systems
150 larger than one hundr ed kilowatts.
151 5. The commission shall pr omulgate rules and regul ations to implement the
152 pr ovisions of this section within nine months of August 28, 2026. Any rule or portion of
153 a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is creat ed under the authority
154 delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to
155 all of the pr ovisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and
156 chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly
157 pursuant to chapter 536 to revi ew , to delay the effective date, or to disappr ove and annul
158 a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority
159 and any rule prop osed or adopted after August 28, 2026, shall be invalid and void.
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