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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-101.5

  • Eligible customer-generator: means a metered residential or commercial customer, including a government entity, of an electric utility who owns and operates a solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating facility, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, that is:

    (1) Located on the customer's premises;

    (2) Operated in parallel with the utility's transmission and distribution facilities;

    (3) In conformance with the utility's interconnection requirements; and

    (4) Intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's own electrical requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 269-101

The eligible customer-generator shall have a capacity of not more than fifty kilowatts; provided that the public utilities commission may increase the maximum allowable capacity that eligible customer-generators may have to an amount greater than fifty kilowatts by rule or order.