{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-70-1507","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 70-1507","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 70-1507","body":"(1) For purposes of this section:\n\n(a) Agricultural or horticultural purposes has the same meaning as in section 77-1359 ;\n\n(b) Agricultural self-generation facility means a facility for the production of electricity that:\n\n(i) Uses methane, wind, solar, biomass, hydropower, or geothermal resources as its energy source;\n\n(ii) Is controlled by the owner-generator and located entirely on the same premises as the owner-generator's electric account with the local distribution utility;\n\n(iii) Is owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the owner-generator and used for agricultural or horticultural purposes;\n\n(iv) Has a rated capacity of one hundred kilowatts or less;\n\n(v) Utilizes a device which prevents any backfeed of electricity to the local distribution system; and\n\n(vi) Is not used for purposes of net metering;\n\n(c) Local distribution system means the equipment and facilities used by a local distribution utility to distribute electricity to end-use customers;\n\n(d) Local distribution utility means the owner or operator of a local distribution system. Local distribution utility includes a public power district, a public power and irrigation district, an electric cooperative, or a municipal electric system;\n\n(e) Net metering has the same meaning as in section 70-2002 ; and\n\n(f) Owner-generator means the person controlling an agricultural self-generation facility.\n\n(2) No local distribution utility shall deny or refuse electric service to a customer that owns an agricultural self-generation facility. An owner-generator is subject to the interconnection requirements, safety standards, electric rates and charges, and service agreement requirements of the local distribution utility in whose service area the agricultural self-generation facility is located. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a local distribution utility from establishing the rates or fees necessary to fully cover its costs to serve a customer that is an owner-generator.\n\n(3) An owner-generator shall notify the local distribution utility of such owner-generator's intent to install an agricultural self-generation facility.","path":["NE Code","Chapter 70"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=70-1507","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"087f1dc752986c85ddbecd4944568bd20b912a918f8cd98336de5112484f1e0d","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-70-1506","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-70-1701"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}