Eligibility.

You may register the following types of systems using this form:

• Ground-mounted photovoltaic systems with a capacity of 25 kW or less
• Roof-mounted photovoltaic systems with a capacity of 500 kW or less
• Mixed ground- and roof-mounted photovoltaic systems with a capacity of 500 kW or less, if the ground-mounted portion of the system does not exceed 25 kW.
• Hydroelectric facilities with a capacity of 500 kW or less

Completing This Form.

You must complete and file the registration form. Failure to complete and file the registration form will result in delay and/or denial. If your proposed system's capacity is greater than 15 kW, you must receive interconnection approval from your electric utility before filing this form. If your proposed system's capacity is less than or equal to 15 kW, it is recommended that you contact your utility before applying for a certificate of public good to discuss any utility-specific requirements that need to be met.

In order to complete the registration form, you must attach a copy of the completed Department/Commission Application Fee Form that was submitted to the Department of Public Service. Send the original of the Fee Form and the fee payment to the Department of Public Service. Do not send the fee payment to the Commission.

After completing the registration form, you must click the “Proceed” button at the end of this form to submit the registration form to the Public Utility Commission. By clicking “Proceed,” you certify that the information is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge.

What Happens After This Form is Filed?

You will receive an electronic Filing Confirmation that the Public Utility Commission has received the registration form via ePUC (the Commission’s electronic filing system); the Filing Confirmation will include the case number and a link to the case in ePUC. To see a pdf version of the completed registration form, click on the link in the email, then on the "All Other Documents" tab, and finally on the "View Document" link.

When the Filing Confirmation is sent to you, ePUC will provide notice of, and access to, the registration form to the Vermont Department of Public Service, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and the electric utility identified by the Applicant on the registration form.

Unless otherwise directed by the Commission, a certificate of public good ("CPG") will be deemed issued on the 15th day following the filing of this form. You may not commence site preparation or construction of the system until a CPG has been deemed issued. All CPGs deemed issued are conditioned on compliance with all interconnection requirements of the interconnecting electric utility.

Please contact the Public Utility Commission at (802) 828-2358 if you have any questions regarding this registration form.

Certificate of Public Good Municipal Notice Form

If this project has a capacity of greater than 25 kW, State law requires that, within 45 days of the date that a certificate of public good (CPG) for the project is deemed issued, the Applicant must record a notice of the CPG in the land records of the host municipality using the Certificate of Public Good Municipal Notice Form.

Information for Group Systems

If proposing a group system, the Applicant must provide the following information to its utility. Please note this is a separate filing. Group information does not need to be provided to the Commission:

1. the meters to be included in the group system identified by account number and location;
2. the procedure for adding and removing meters included in the group system, and direction as to the manner in which the serving utility should allocate any accrued credits among the meters in the group;
3. a designated person, including address and telephone number, responsible for all communications from the system to the serving electric utility, except for communications related to billing, payment, and disconnection; and
4. a binding process for the resolution of any disputes within the group system relating to net metering that does not rely on the serving electric utility, the Public Utility Commission, or the Department of Public Service.

Please note that all meters included in a group system must be within the same electric utility service territory in which the generation facility is located.

Do you elect to (1) retain ownership of any environmental attributes associated with the system or (2) transfer the environmental attributes to your electric utility?

Note: If you are a solar customer, this election will affect the rate at which you will be credited for your generation and can be changed only once within 120 days after the system is commissioned by filing a motion and paying a fee. The election cannot be changed after that time period. "Commissioned" means the first time a system is put into operation following its initial construction of the system. Please consult with your installer and/or your electric utility before making this election. Your electric utility must retire any environmental attributes received from net-metering customers, and the energy will count towards the state's renewable energy requirements.

For the system location, the Town must be selected from the drop-down menu, which includes a list of all Vermont towns, incorporated villages, gores, and unincorporated areas. In Vermont sometimes other “place names” are used in a mailing address; these other place names do not refer to legal municipalities (for example, the place South Starksboro is in the town of Starksboro). If the service area is located in such an “other place,” please select the name of the town in which the other place is located.

Copy of Department/Commission Application Fee Form that you previously sent to the Department of Public Service with the fee payment.

By clicking “Proceed” to send this application to the Public Utility Commission, I am affirmatively affixing my signature to this application in electronic format and declaring that, having exercised due diligence and made reasonable inquiry, the information that I have provided on this form and any attachments and the statements below are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if the statements below are false, I may be subject to sanctions by the Commission pursuant to 30 V.S.A. § 30.

1. The system will be installed in compliance with the interconnection safety and technological requirements of Vermont Public Utility Commission Rule 5.500 and all interconnection requirements of the interconnecting electric utility.
2. If the system capacity is 15 kW or greater, the Applicant has received approval to interconnect the system pursuant to Vermont Public Utility Commission Rule 5.500.
3. This registration will not result in more than 500 kW of cumulative net-metering generation being allocated to any customer, consistent with Commission Rule 5.129(D) and the definitions of the terms "account" and "customer"contained in Commission Rule 5.103, unless the customer is a school or school district, in which case the school or school district may be allocated greater capacity but not more than the limit set forth in Section 6 of Act 81 of 2019.
4. If this project is a hydroelectric system, the project has received all necessary federal and state permits.
5. If this project has a capacity of greater than 25 kW, as required by State law, within 45 days of the date that a certificate of public good (CPG) for the project is deemed issued, I must record a notice of the CPG in the land records of the host municipality using the Certificate of Public Good Municipal Notice Form.
6. If the system is ground mounted, the shortest distance between the nearest ground-mounted portion of a solar panel or support structure for a solar panel, at its point of attachment to the ground, for this net-metering system is at least 10 feet away from the edge of a State or municipal highway and at least 10 feet away from each property boundary.
7. If I am a system installer, the Applicant has authorized me to submit this registration form on behalf of the Applicant,and the Applicant has signed a binding contract for the installation.
8. I have paid the required Department/Commission Application Fee to the Department of Public Service.

Making false or misleading statements on this application could result in revocation of any approval granted.

Please click “Proceed” to confirm that you wish to submit this signed registration form to the Public Utility Commission.

Reminder: You will receive a filing confirmation from the Commission via ePUC that includes a link to the case in ePUC. To see a pdf version of the completed registration form, click on the link in the email, then on the "All Other Documents" tab, and finally on the "View Document" link.

Please be sure to doublecheck that you have filled in all required fields and attached all required documents before clicking "Proceed."