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Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 MINNESOTA ELECTRIC RATE BOOK - MPUC NO. 2 STANDARD CONTRACT FOR SOLAR*REWARDS COMMUNITY (Continued) Section No. 9 2nd Revised Sheet No. 70 "Community Solar Garden Allocation" shall mean the monthly allocation, stated in Watts direct current (DC) as a portion of the total nameplate capacity of the Community Solar Garden, applicable to each Subscriber's Subscription reflecting each Subscriber's allocable portion of photovoltaic electricity produced by the Community Solar Garden in a particular Production Month. "Community Solar Garden Operator" is identified above and shall mean the organization whose purpose is to operate or otherwise manage the Community Solar Garden for its Subscribers. A Community Solar Garden Operator may be an individual or any for-profit or non-profit entity permitted by Minnesota law. "Community Solar Garden Location" is the location of the single point of common coupling for the Community Solar Garden associated with the PV System. Multiple Community Solar Garden Locations may be situated in close proximity to one another in order to share in distribution infrastructure. This defined term is applicable to: 1. determine which county the Community Solar Garden is located in for purposes of: a. applying the requirement that "Each Subscriber to the Community Solar Garden must be a retail customer of the Company and each must be located in the same county or a county contiguous to the Community Solar Garden Location", b. having the Company publicly disclose the county where the Community Solar Garden is located, c. generally describing, in addition to the Community Solar Garden Address, the location of the Community Solar Garden, and, 2. detail the requirement that multiple Community Solar Garden Locations may be situated in close proximity to one another in order to share in distribution infrastructure. This definition should not be used to determine whether a Community Solar Garden complies with the Service Territory Requirement. "Community Solar Garden Statutory Requirements" are based on the provisions in Minn. Stat. § 216B.1641 and Minn. Stat. § 216B.1691, and for purposes of this Contract mean the following: a. The Community Solar Garden must have not less than five (5) Subscribers, b. No single Subscriber may have more than a forty (40) percent interest in the Community Solar Garden, c. The Community Solar Garden must have a nameplate capacity of no more than one (1) megawatt alternating current (AC), d. Each Subscription shall be sized to represent at least two hundred (200) watts of the Community Solar Garden's generating capacity, e. Each Subscription shall be sized so that, when combined with other distributed generation resources serving the premises of each Subscriber, the Subscription size does not exceed one hundred twenty (120) percent of the average annual consumption of electricity over the prior twenty four (24) months by each Subscriber to which the Subscription is attributed (based on the annual estimated generation of the PV System as determined by PVWATTS), provided that if historical electric energy consumption data is not available for a particular subscriber the Company will calculate the estimated annual electric energy consumption under the process detailed in the Company's rate book applicable to the Solar*Rewards Community Program. (Continued on Sheet No. 9-71) Date Filed: 07-21-16 By: Christopher B. Clark Effective Date: 08-11-16 President, Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation Docket No. E002/M-13-867 Order Date: 06-21-16 N N