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• RESOLUTION NO. 2011- 9 0 R <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN <br />MARCOS, TEXAS, APPROVING INCENTIVES FOR ELECTRIC <br />UTILITY CUSTOMERS TO INSTALL DISTRIBUTED GENERATION <br />SYSTEMS SUCH AS WIND AND SOLAR GENERATED ELECTRICITY <br />SYSTEMS; ESTABLISHING A RATE FOR THE CITY TO BUY BACK <br />EXCESS ELECTRICITY GENERATED FROM SUCH SYSTEMS; AND <br />DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. <br />RECITALS: <br />1. The City seeks to encourage its electric utility customers to install distributed <br />generation systems that produce electricity through such means as wind and solar power by <br />providing incentives to City of San Marcos Electric Utility customers to install such distributed <br />generation systems and establishing a fair rate for the City to buy back excess electricity <br />generated by such systems. <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, <br />TEXAS: <br />PART 1. All applicable permit fees are hereby waived for the installation of City <br />• approved and City Code compliant distributed generation systems by City of San Marcos Electric <br />Utility customers. <br />PART 2. Subject to available funding approved by the City Council, any City of San <br />Marcos Electric Utility customer that installs a City approved and City Code compliant <br />distributed generation system will receive an incentive payment from the City of $5,000.00. This <br />incentive shall be limited only to a single new first -time system installed after the date of this <br />Resolution. No customer shall be entitled to additional incentive payments for expansions or <br />modifications to existing systems or for multiple independent systems at a single platted lot. <br />PART 3. Subject to the reasonable procedures and processes as may be established <br />by the Director of the San Marcos Electric Utility, the City shall purchase excess electricity <br />generated by a City of San Marcos Electric Utility customer's distributed generation system at <br />the same average rate that the City purchases electric power from its electric power suppliers at <br />such time. <br />PART 4. This Resolution shall be effective on the sooner of October 1, 2011 or the <br />date the Director of the San Marcos Electric Utility declares the City's Advanced Metering <br />Infrastructure ( "AMI ") system to be fully operational. <br />ADOPTED on July 19, 2011. <br />is <br />