Interconnection info request [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

Fellow Wrenches.
New Mexico has net metering and a newly-codified RPS. We have worked with
four utilities (one IOU and 3 RECs), all of which are regulated. Now we are
working with a client (and there may be more coming) in the city of Los
Alamos, which is a muni and thus unregulated by our state's PRC. The client
is having us install 3 kW of PV on a Wattsun Uber-tracker in his back yard,
as he rebuilds after the 2000 fire.

The Los Alamos County Utilities Dept. is drafting a net metering agreement
as we speak. The issue I want to protest is a requirement that "the
qualifying facility to be designed by an engineer licensed in NM." Nobody
else requires this, and it would add several hundred bucks to the system
cost.

Can anyone provide a well-written argument against requiring an engineer's
stamp, from another battle elsewhere that I may use to craft a comment on
the proposed rule? A word document would be great, as I can cut and paste it
onto letterhead and submit it to the utility.

Thank you for any help.

Allan at PosE

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