N.J. Admin. Code § 14:8-11.5 - Successor Solar Incentive Program registration process
(a) The SuSI Program registration process
shall be developed by Board staff and the SuSI Program registration manager in
compliance with Board rules and orders. All forms and instructions regarding
the SuSI Program registration process shall be found on the Board's New Jersey
Clean Energy Program website at www.njcleanenergy.com.
(b) For any facility seeking eligibility for
the SuSI Program, the registrant shall submit a complete registration package
to the Board, or its designee, in accordance with Board rules and orders and
the instructions posted on the NJ Clean Energy Program website.
(c) The Board may require the registration
package to be accompanied by a registration fee, the value of which shall be
determined by the Board through a Board Order, and available on the Board's
website.
(d) The registrant shall
meet minimum facility maturity standards according to the ADI or CSI Program
conditions and provide all required documentation as part of its initial
registration package.
1. For the ADI Program,
the registrant shall supply the following, and any other information the Board,
or its designee, may deem necessary to confirm eligibility for the program:
i. A contract between the primary installer
or the third-party owner, as applicable, and the customer of record;
ii. For facilities sized 100 kW or greater, a
site plan certified by a licensed professional engineer, or for smaller
facilities, a site map;
iii. A
disclosure statement signed by the customer, the installer, and the third-party
SREC-II owner, if applicable, available on the New Jersey Clean Energy Program
website;
iv. For net metered
facilities, a utility bill showing the site host's name, address, and electric
tariff, if applicable;
v. For
facilities sized 25 kW or greater, electrical and building permits or
documentation that applications for electrical and building permits have been
submitted to the relevant municipality;
vi. For net metered facilities sized 25 kW or
greater, up to one MW, evidence of having submitted to the relevant EDC an
Attachment A to an Interconnection Application and Agreement signed by the
customer-generator and the installer;
vii. For net metered facilities sized one MW
or greater, written authorization from the EDC providing conditional approval
to construct and a Milestone Reporting Form;
viii. For public entities seeking eligibility
for the ADI public entity adder, if such an adder is established by the Board
pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
14:8-11.6(g), a letter on
official stationery of the public agency under signature of a bona fide
officer, elected official, or employee of the public entity attesting to the
status of the public entity .
2. For the CSI Program, the registrant shall
supply the following and any other information the Board, or its designee, may
deem necessary to confirm eligibility for the program:
i. A contract between the primary installer
or the third-party owner, as applicable, and the bidder or customer of record,
submitted within one year of the date of conditional registration;
ii. A site plan certified by a licensed
professional engineer;
iii. For net
metered facilities, a utility bill showing the site host's name, address, and
electric tariff;
iv.
(Reserved.)
v. For net metered
facilities, written authorization from the EDC providing conditional approval
to construct;
vi. A Milestone
Reporting Form;
vii. Evidence of
the project's accepted bid into the CSI Program; and
viii. For projects to be located on
contaminated sites or landfills only, conditional certification of Tranche 3
eligibility from the Board, which the developer shall apply for using the form
located on the Board's New Jersey Clean Energy Program website at
www.njcleanenergy.com.
(e) Registration
packages submitted to the ADI Program shall be reviewed by the SuSI Program
registration manager on a first-come, first-served basis.
(f) Board staff or the SuSI Program
registration manager shall notify registrants whether the facility is eligible
to participate in the program, and whether the initial registration package is
complete, incomplete, or deficient. Registrations that are deemed incomplete
due to a minor deficiency, as set forth at (f)1 below, will be notified of the
deficiency by the SuSI Program registration manager and granted seven business
days to cure the deficiency. Registrations that are deemed ineligible,
incomplete, have a major deficiency, as set forth at (f)2 below, or fail to
correct minor deficiencies within the time allowed, will be rejected, and the
registration will be cancelled. If the registration is cancelled, the
registrant may submit a new completed registration to the ADI Program only if
the relevant capacity block established pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
14:8-11.7 remains open, or in a future
capacity block.
1. Minor deficiencies include
such items as an inconsistency between the signatures on different sections of
the SuSI certification form; failure to complete one or more sections on the
SuSI certification form; failure to label technologies or to indicate panels on
the site map; a missing or incorrect premise address or missing installer
information on the site map; submittal of an incorrect page of the utility
bill; failure to enter complete equipment information in the online portal; an
incomplete section or sections on the Milestone Reporting Form or disclosure
form; or other similar clerical error.
2. Major deficiencies include such items as
failure to upload the SuSI registration certification form to the SuSI portal
or failure to include all signatures on that form; failure to upload the
certified site plan , site map or utility bill, if relevant, to the SuSI portal;
failure to upload the Milestone Reporting Form to the SuSI portal or to include
all signatures; failure to upload the disclosure form to the SuSI portal or to
include all signatures; for CSI projects, failure to provide evidence of an
accepted bid; and for net metered projects one megawatts or larger, failure to
upload a fully executed Part I of the Interconnection Approval from the
relevant EDC with the application.
(g) Registrants that submit a completed
registration package or that cured all minor deficiencies in the time allowed,
and that meet the eligibility and qualification requirements for a SuSI market
segment pursuant to this section, will be issued a notice of conditional
registration by Board staff or the SuSI Program registration manager . The
notice of the conditional registration shall:
1. Indicate for which program and which
market segment the facility is eligible;
2. State that, if the solar facility is
constructed as described in the initial registration package, Board staff or
the SuSI Program registration manager will issue a New Jersey State
Certification Number for the facility upon receiving a complete
post-construction certification package, and if no waiver is granted, an
inspection will be required necessary in accordance with the provisions at (j)
below;
3. Include an expiration
date occurring on:
i. The one-year anniversary
of the registrant's notice of conditional registration for residential net
metered facilities and non-residential net metered facilities five megawatts or
less that are eligible for receiving incentives under the ADI
Program;
ii. The 18-month
anniversary of a registrant's notice of conditional registration for community
solar facilities; or
iii. The
36-month anniversary of a registrant's notice of conditional registration for
projects granted conditional certification by the Board as part of the CSI
Program; and
4. Include
notice that the facility must receive permission to operate from the relevant
EDC or regional transmission organization and submit a post-construction
certification packet as set forth at (j) below prior to the expiration date
indicated in the notice of the conditional registration;
5. After issuance of the notice of
conditional certification by the Board, construction of the solar facility as
described in the initial registration package may begin; and
6. For CSI-eligible facilities , include a
reference to the applicable Board Order that confirms the facility's
eligibility and the value of the incentive.
(h) All registered facilities one MW or
greater will be required to submit quarterly milestone reporting forms, on a
standard form to be developed by the SuSI Program registration manager in
coordination with Board staff. Timely submission of milestone reporting forms
will be considered in cases of extension requests pursuant to (i)
below.
(i) SuSI-eligible facilities
that received a SuSI Program notice of conditional registration may request one
six-month extension to their registration expiration date. Extension requests
must be submitted to the SuSI Program registration manager on or before the
expiration date noted in the notice of conditional registration. Any extension
request shall be reviewed by the SuSI Program registration manager , in
consultation with Board staff, on a case-by-case basis, based on consideration
of extenuating circumstances for the delay in completing the facility, evidence
that the facility has made progress towards completion, and the likelihood of
timely and successful completion of the solar facility. For facilities one MW
or greater, the SuSI Program registration manager shall also consider whether
the registrant has submitted timely quarterly milestone reporting forms. If the
extension is granted, the SuSI Program registration manager shall provide a new
conditional registration expiration date, six months from the expiration of the
original conditional registration.
(j) Following commencement of commercial
operations, and prior to the expiration date provided in the notice of
conditional registration, the registrant shall submit a post-construction
certification package, through the Board's New Jersey Clean Energy Program
website at www.njcleanenergy.com. If
the post-construction certification package demonstrates that all program
requirements have been met, and the facility either passes an inspection or
receives an inspection waiver, Board staff shall assign a New Jersey State
Certification Number to the solar facility for use in obtaining SREC-IIs from
PJM-EIS GATS.
1. For ADI-eligible facilities,
the Certification Number will identify the facility's market segment, and
associated incentive level, based on the completed facility size information
certified in the post-construction certification package.
2. For landfills participating in the CSI
Program, if proper closure has been identified as a condition of certification,
documentation of proper closure of the sanitary landfill facility issued by the
NJDEP shall be included in the post-construction certification
package.
(k) If, after
submittal of an initial registration package, an increase of up to 20 percent
or 25 kWdc, whichever is smaller, in the solar electric generating facility's
generating capacity is planned, the registrant shall notify Board staff
following the instructions provided on the New Jersey Clean Energy Program
website. Facilities shall not be permitted to increase their generating
capacity by more than 20 percent or 25 kWdc, whichever is smaller.
Notwithstanding a permissible increase pursuant to this subsection, no
ADI-eligible facility will be permitted an increase in generating capacity that
would expand the project beyond five MWdc.
(l) Solar electric generation facilities that
have received a notice of conditional registration for SREC-IIs pursuant to (g)
above shall retain eligibility to remain in the SuSI Program until the
expiration or cancelation of the facility's SuSI registration. Any facility
that does not commence commercial operation, within the time provided in its
SuSI registration (that is, by the registration expiration date), or that
commences commercial operation, but does not submit a post-construction
certification package within the time provided in its SuSI registration (that
is, by the registration expiration date), will no longer be eligible for the
SuSI Program and its registration shall be canceled. A registrant may submit a
new registration to the ADI Program if capacity remains in the relevant
megawatt capacity block as established at
N.J.A.C.
14:8-11.7. Board staff and the SuSI Program
registration manager shall treat the new registration package as if it were a
first-time submittal, with no reference to the previous registration process.
In the case of resubmittal of an expired registration, registrants will be
exempt from the requirement at
N.J.A.C.
14:8-11.4(b) prohibiting
construction on the facility prior to submission of the registration and
receipt of a notice of conditional registration.
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