Solar Net Metering States

In other states utilities may offer net metering programs voluntarily or as a result of regulatory decisions.

Solar net metering states.

As of 2016 41 states and washington d c. States include a variety of technologies in net metering policies. Wind and micro turbines combined heat and power or cogeneration biomass biogas landfill gas municipal solid waste anaerobic digesters geothermal electric fuel cells small. Net metering allows residential and commercial customers who generate their own electricity from solar power to sell the electricity they aren t using back into the grid.

While net metering is not the only way that utilities compensate homeowners for going solar it is by far the most common. Have mandatory net metering rules and two more have utilities that permit the practice. Quite a few people don t really think about their electric meter they simply pay the bill when it comes. Basic net metering rules are in place but a new compensation process will be developed when a 5 aggregate cap is reached.

Net metering was pioneered in the united states as a way to allow solar and wind to provide electricity whenever available and allow use of that electricity whenever it was needed beginning with utilities in idaho in 1980 and in arizona in 1981. Many states have passed net metering laws. A residential net metering policy might differ from a commercial net metering policy.