Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program
Tariff Summary

Utility Service				PacifiCorp
Provider Tariff Name			NEMVS-139
Effective Date			Advice 561-E, Filed March 14, 2018
(Version)				Within the entire utility territory services in California

Eligibility
Applicability
•	Available to customer accounts who are located in the eligible housing complex and are listed on the Solar Allocation Form
•	Project must be participating in SOMAH
•	All solar generation will be exported to the grid and virtually allocated to the benefitting accounts as a bill credit
References: Applicability
Eligible Generator
•	Grid-tied, not oversized; all generation is exported and virtually applied as credits to qualified customers in the complex
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 customer-generators(s) located on the property
References: SC 1.c
Owner
•	The qualified customer who has the legal right or rightful claim to ownership of the residential complex and who has one or more eligible customer-generator(s) located on the premises
References: SC 1.b
Property
•	All real property and apparatus employed in a single low- income housing enterprise on contiguous parcels of land, which 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: SC 1.f

Qualified Customer (QC)
•	A QC may be a separately metered tenant located on a property participating in the SOMAH program or is the owner whose name is listed on the common area accounts
References: SC 1.a

Billing & Costs
Relevant Period
•	A 12-month period starting on the start of the next regular billing period following the date of PTO
•	QCs may elect to change the start date of their relevant period on a one-time prospective basis via the One Time Relevant Period Change Request form at least 60 days prior to requested new start date
References: SC 1.g
Allocated Credit
•	Common area/tenant split will remain in effect for a minimum of five years; and common area percent allocation must be less than 50%
•	The individual tenant unit allocations will remain in effect for a minimum of one year
•	Owner can revise the tenant allocations after one year, which will also remain in effect for at least one year
•	Tenant percent allocations must be based on the relative size of the residential unit(s), generally consistent with the manner in which affordable housing rents are established
References: SC 7
Interconnection Costs
•	Owner must pay interconnection costs and the costs associated with the utility installing a generator output meter
References: SC 5
Rates & Mandatory TOU
•	Service on this rate schedule must be taken in combination with the qualified customer’s otherwise applicable rate schedule
•	Mandatory TOU not mentioned
References: Applicability
Monthly Billing
•	Customers must pay their bill monthly
References: Billing
Nonbypassable Charges (NBC)
•	Not mentioned
Net Surplus Calculation (NSC)
•	Monthly excess energy credits are carrier forward to the next month, until the end of the 12-month relevant period

•	Owner/operator must affirmatively elect to participate in NSC for customers to be entitled to compensation for excess annual allocation, otherwise energy credits will be retained by Pacific Power
•	NSC will be applied as an on-bill credit if less than $25; if over
$25, the customer can request a check

References: Billing

System Specifications
Sizing
•	System should not be oversized when compared to the
aggregated annual load of the meters in the arrangement
References: Solar Generation Credit Allocation Request Form
Generation Output Metering Requirements
•	A separate generation output meter (NGOM) must be installed (in addition to the standard utility meters for the OAS) at the expense of the owner
•	Meter location must be approved by the utility
•	The SOMAH solar generator should be the only load connected to this NGOM
References: SC 5; SC 6
NEM-Paired Storage System
•	Integrated or directly connected storage, classified as an addition or enhancement to the PV generator, are allowable and are subject to the same 20-year term as the generator
References: Paired Energy Storage Systems; SC 3.d
Grandfathering & System Modifications
•	20-year term on this tariff
•	The system will maintain eligibility for the remainder of their 20- year term if system modifications do not exceed a 10% increase from original nameplate rating or 1 kW and does not result in an oversized capacity compared to past annual consumption
References: SC 3.a; SC 3.b; SC 3.c
Warranties
•	Not mentioned

Direct Access (DA) and Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Customers
Applicability
•	Not mentioned
Rates
•	Not mentioned

Relevant Period
•	Not mentioned
Metering Requirements
•	Not mentioned
Billing Provisions
•	Not mentioned
NSC
•	Not mentioned