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Your utility does not offer a community solar program, which gives customers access to solar energy without installing rooftop solar systems.
Across the sunny South, people are increasingly turning to homegrown, affordable rooftop solar power to meet their energy needs. Some utilities are designing thoughtful programs and policies that encourage rooftop solar investments. Others are finding ways to undermine, and, in some cases, completely put the brakes on solar’s emergence as a feasible, cost-effective choice for customers.
Find out if your utility is a maker or braker when it comes to giving you access to clean, affordable solar energy.
Unfortunately, we were unable to find enough information about your utility’s solar policy. Contact your utility to find out what their solar policy is.
The Green Power Providers program has limited capacity. Once the program is full, rooftop solar customers are forced to participate in a program that compensates them far less for solar sent back to the grid.
Your provider is making a 0.00 cents/kwh profit on the unused solar energy your system generates by selling it to someone else.
Based on average residential retail rates as reported to the Energy Information Administration in 2016. Your utility zeroes out excess solar credits every November, compensating customers are a reduced rate.
Your utility doesn’t allow you to use any of the solar energy that your system produces. Instead, you are required to buy all the energy you need from your utility and push all of your solar energy onto the electric grid.
Based on average residential retail rates as reported to the Energy Information Administration in 2016. Your utility zeroes out excess solar credits every November, compensating customers are a reduced rate.
Your utility credits your bill at its retail price when you send solar energy onto the electric grid. This means that your solar energy can offset the power you buy from your utility at an equal rate.
Based on average residential retail rates as reported to the Energy Information Administration in 2016. Your utility zeroes out excess solar credits every November, compensating customers are a reduced rate.
Your utility credits your bill at a wholesale price when you send solar energy onto the electric grid. This means that you're only compensated at a fraction of what you pay for power bought from your utility.
Based on average residential retail rates as reported to the Energy Information Administration in 2016. Your utility zeroes out excess solar credits every November, compensating customers are a reduced rate.
Your utility credits your bill below its retail rate when you send solar energy onto the electric grid. This means that your utility is charging you more for power you buy than it compensates you for the solar energy you provide.
Based on average residential retail rates as reported to the Energy Information Administration in 2016. Your utility zeroes out excess solar credits every November, compensating customers are a reduced rate.
BARC Electric Cooperative serves 13,000 customers in the Shenandoah Valley of Western Virginia. The co-op gives customers full credit at its retail rate for any solar sent onto the grid, and allows residential customers to install solar systems up to 20 kW in size without imposing monthly fees or charges. Way to go BARC!
BARC Electric Cooperative serves 13,000 customers in the Shenandoah Valley of Western Virginia. The co-op gives customers full credit at its retail rate for any solar sent onto the grid, and allows residential customers to install solar systems up to 20 kW in size without imposing monthly fees or charges. Way to go BARC!
Several years ago, Alabama Power began imposing a monthly charge on customers who install solar to power some of their energy needs. That unjust charge has effectively killed the growth of rooftop solar in the state of Alabama.
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