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PSC advances broad exemptions to individual electric-metering rule for multifamily housing
Summary
The Public Service Commission on June 19, 2025 approved revisions to the administrative rule on individual electric metering for multi‑dwelling buildings that add categorical exemptions, combine equipment‑efficiency and projected‑usage tests, and eliminate a subsection requiring retrofitting meters in certain existing buildings.
The Public Service Commission on June 19, 2025 approved revisions to an administrative rule governing individual electric metering in multi‑dwelling residential buildings, moving the issue from case-by-case waivers to a set of categorical exemptions designed to reduce waiver requests and account for modern energy practices.
The change would add several new exemptions to Wisconsin administrative code subsection PSE 1.13.0803 (individual electric metering), including a combined exemption tying equipment efficiency and per‑unit projected usage; an exemption for low projected per‑unit usage; an exemption for new construction that participates in recognized energy‑design programs; and an exemption for projects under contract with local, state or federal affordable‑housing programs. Chair Strand said the proposed revisions are intended to ‘‘clean up, clarify, update, and improve’’ a rule written in 1980 and last revised in 2002.
The rules change matters because the existing waiver process has produced increasing, complex requests that commissioners say have tied up…
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