1. Overview
1.1 PURPOSE
1.1a What is the purpose of the Net Billing Standard Offer Program?
The Net Billing Standard Offer Program is intended to support greater use of renewable sources of energy in
Jamaica. The program seeks to encourage electricity production by small intermittent sources of renewable
energy of 100kW or less, via a simple contract arrangement. These installations will require supplemental power
from the JPS and will on occasion have excess electricity, which can be sold to the utility – so long as the Gross
System Output does not exceed 10kW AC output for residential facilities, or 100kW for commercial facilities.
1.1b Who Initiated this Program?
The Government of Jamaica as part of its Energy Policy has proposed a number of initiatives to make investment
in electricity generation for the public grid from renewable sources, economically viable. The Government has set a
target where 15% of total generation should be provided from renewable energy sources by 2015. The
OUR, which is responsible for the addition of generating capacity to the grid, has reserved a block of capacity for
renewable sources, one portion of which should be in the category of 100kW or less.
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