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customer must be the energy rate shown on schedule 42. Subp. 4. Compensation to qualifying facility; capacity purchases. If the qualifying facility provides firm power to the utility, the capacity component must be the capacity cost per kilowatt shown on schedule 4 2 divided by the number of on -peak hours in the billing period. The capacity component applies only to deliveries during on -peak hours. If the qualifying facility does not provide firm power to the utility, no capacity component may be included in the compensation paid to the interconnecting customer. Part Q. ROLL-OVER CREDIT PURCHASE RATES Subpart 1. Applicability. The roll-over credit rate is available only to interconnecting customers with qualifying facilities with capacity of less than 40 kilowatts who choose not to offer electric power for sale on average retail utility energy rate basis, time -of -day basis or simultaneous purchase and sale basis. Subp. 2. Method of billing. The utility shall bill the interconnecting customer for the excess of energy supplied by the utility above energy supplied by the qualifying facility during each billing period according to the utility's applicable retail rate schedule. Subp. 3. Additional calculations for billing. When the energy generated by the qualifying facility exceeds that supplied by the utility during a billing period, the utility shall apply the excess kilowatt hours as a credit to the next billing period kilowatt hour usage. Excess kilowatt hours that are not offset in the next billing period shall continue to be rolled over to the next consecutive billing period. Any excess kilowatt hours rolled over that are remaining at the end of each calendar year shall cancel with no additional compensation. Part R. CONTRACTS NEGOTIATED BY CUSTOMER An interconnecting customer with a qualifying facility with capacity greater than 100 kilowatts must negotiate a contract with the utility setting the applicable rates for payments to the customer of avoided capacity and energy costs. Subpart 1. Amount of capacity payments. The interconnecting customer who negotiates a contract under part Q must be entitled to the full avoided capacity costs of the utility. The amount of capacity payments will be determined by the utility and the utility's wholesale power provider. Subp. 2. Full avoided energy costs. The interconnecting customer who negotiates a contract under part Q must be entitled to the full avoided energy costs of the utility. The costs must be adjusted as appropriate to reflect line losses. Part S. WHEELING Interconnecting customers with qualifying facilities with capacity of 30 kilowatts or greater that are interconnected to the utility's distribution system who choose to sell the output of the qualifying facility to any other utility, must pay any appropriate wheeling charges to the utility. Within 15 days of receiving payment from the utility ultimately receiving the qualifying facility's output, the utility shall pay the interconnecting customer the payment less the charges it has incurred and its own reasonable wheeling costs. 55