Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program
Tariff Summary

Utility Service				Liberty Utilities
Provider Tariff Name			MASH-VNEM
Effective Date			Advice 93-E
(Version)				Entire utility service territory

Eligibility
Applicability
•	Available to customer accounts located in the eligible housing complex
•	All solar generation will be exported to the grid and virtually allocated to the benefitting accounts as a bill credit
•	1 MW cap
•	Available until total rated generating capacity of eligible qualified customers exceeds five percent of the utility’s aggregate peak load in California
References: Applicability
Eligible Generator
•	PV system ≤1 MW, on-site, grid-tied, not oversized
References: Definitions

Definitions
Operator
•	A qualified customer (QC) who operates a business by leasing or renting the residential complex from an owner and who has one or more eligible generators on premises
References: Definitions e
Owner
•	The QC who has the legal right of rightful claim to ownership of the residential complex and has one of more eligible generators on premises
References: Definitions d
Property
•	All the real property and apparatus employed in a single low- income housing enterprise on contiguous parcels of land
•	Parcels may be divided by a dedicated street, highway or public thoroughfare or railway, so long as they are otherwise contiguous,

part of the same single low-income housing enterprise and all under the same ownership
References: Definitions f
Qualified Customer (QC)
•	A QC may be a separately metered tenant located in a participating property, the owner whose name is on the common area accounts or the customer-generator
References: Definitions c

Billing & Costs
Relevant Period
•	A 12-month period or part, such that the end of the relevant period ends December 31 of each year
References: Billing A
Allocated Credit
•	Allocated credits will be credited to the eligible service accounts located at the eligible property
References: Rates; Billing D
Interconnection Costs
•	Not mentioned
Rates & Mandatory TOU
•	Service on this SOMAH Virtual Net Metering tariff is in addition to the customer’s otherwise applicable rate (mandatory TOU not mentioned)
References: Rates
Monthly Billing
•	Customers must pay their bill monthly
References: Billing C
Nonbypassable Charges (NBC)
•	Not mentioned
Net Surplus Calculation (NSC)
•	Customers who elect to participate in NSC will receive retail rate compensation during the month of the meter reading
•	At the end of the relevant period, participating service accounts will receive applicable compensation
•	The minimum threshold for monetary payment at the end of the true-up period will be $25 and amounts less than $25 will be carried over to the next 12-month period

References: Billing B; Billing C; Billing H; Rates 2

System Specifications
Sizing
•	System capacity should not exceed the cumulative peak loads

of all accounts in the complex
•	1 MW cap
References: Definitions; Metering
Generation Output Metering Requirements
•	The SOMAH solar generator should be the only load connected to the NGOM
References: Metering
NEM-Paired Storage System
•	Not mentioned
Grandfathering & System Modifications
•	Not mentioned
Warranties
•	Not mentioned

Direct Access (DA) and Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Customers
Applicability
•	This service is not applicable to a direct access (DA) customer where the customer’s energy service provider (ESP) does not offer such a service
•	If a qualified customer participated in direct transactions with an ESP that does not provide distribution service for the DA, the ESP and not the utility is obligated to provide net energy metering to the QC
Reference: Applicability
Rates
•	Not mentioned
Relevant Period
•	Not mentioned
Metering Requirements
•	Not mentioned
Billing Provisions
•	Not mentioned
NSC
•	Not mentioned