Selling Solar Energy Back To The Grid

Rooftop solar panel owners could be getting charged fees to sell energy back to the grid by nick harmsen posted 17 m minutes ago thu thursday 16 jul july 2020 at 10 35am.

Selling solar energy back to the grid.

That s right for savvy consumers solar energy can both save and earn all at the same time. Replacing old dirty power stations and pumping more renewable energy into the grid. Check with your state and utility company. Here s how you can sell electricity back to the grid.

If you did manage to get your export meter installed and feeding power back to your supplier you were typically paid somewhere between 6 and 9 pence per kwh fed back. Households that generate electricity through residential solar projects can receive checks from the power companies for excess energy sent to the grid. Traditionally the birthplace of electricity is a power plant where generators powered by coal oil or natural gas all finite resources that cannot be regenerated unless you ve got a few million years on. The grid also known as the power grid is the network of generators cables and other transmission equipment that brings electricity from the place it s produced to wherever you use it.

New rules give households right to sell solar power back to energy firms. When a solar generating company sells electricity back to the grid it is in essence receiving credits rather than cash. Solar power can be fed back into the grid with a pv system. For more information on pv systems click here.

Selling energy to the grid involved a large amount of red tape and many owners of solar pv systems found it to be too much hassle. This will help bring down prices. You can sell your solar power back to a utility company.