Sentences with phrase «back utility meters»

On the tape, a confessed arsonist claimed that in the «50s and «60s, he and Charles Raffa had turned back utility meters, presumably to help people and businesses cheat on gas and electric bills.

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Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

Regulators voted for affordable net metering in Arizona Thursday, letting consumers with rooftop solar panels sell excess power back to the utility, a major incentive for homeowners to invest in renewable energy.

The meter reader has gone the way of the milkman and the bread man — in some communities, «smart meters» wirelessly report your energy or water consumption back to the utility company.

Owners can receive compensation for energy sent back to the grid under utility companies» net metering policies.

Such a scene would have been difficult to imagine in December 2015 when the Public Utilities Commission voted to end net metering — as the credits paid to panel - owning homeowners for power sent back to the grid are called.

More than half of that additional capacity — 5,251 MW — has been installed by home and business owners participating in utility net metering programs that allow owners of solar systems to sell excess capacity back to their local utility at retail rates, according to EIA.

With dynamic pricing, provided from the power market and smart meters, installed by utility companies it is now possible for consumers to sell electricity back to the grid and trade it like a typical commodity.

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Most states have passed laws allowing net metering, but a 40 percent drop in the cost of residential solar installations in the last five years has prompted some to review those policies amid calls by utilities to roll them back.

As solar gets big enough to threaten their bottom line, utilities are trying to roll back incentives like «net metering,» which lets solar - powered households sell their surplus energy back to the grid for a profit.

information from your utility about system size limits, net metering structure and rate for compensation for energy sold back to the utility

It should be noted that while all solar systems in the US can qualify for federal incentive programs like the Investment Tax Credit, you're more likely to get more incentive opportunities, like net - metering — allowing you to sell power back to the utility — with a grid - connected system than with an off - grid electric system, since most incentives are offered through utilities.

Like rollover minutes on a cell phone, net - energy metering allows customers to offset their electricity bills with clean energy — such as solar or wind power, for example — and to receive bill credits for extra energy sent back to the utility.

A widespread policy called net metering, which requires utilities to purchase back power generated by their customers» solar panels, is nibbling at utility company's bottom lines.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to

Controversy continued over net metering, too, although the utilities that want to charge solar homeowners for back - up power aren't so quick to pony up the full value of solar - generated peak - hour kilowatts.

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to a $ 5 grid access charge.

Utilities across the country, working with Koch - affiliated groups, have been fighting distributed solar by attempting to roll back renewable energy mandates and net metering laws.

Under «net - metering» billing regimes, solar power producers can sell their excess electricity (i.e., that which exceeds their demand) back to the utility, for which they [the rooftop solar owners] usually are credited the full - retail rate of electricity.

The rooftop solar thermal panels produce hot water that flows through radiant tubing in the floors to heat the house; the rooftop photovoltaic panels are net - metered so that during the week when we're in L.A. and the house is empty and the energy goes unused, it is pumped directly back into the grid and creates a credit at the local utility.

In states with net metering, you will typically receive a credit on your utility bill for every kilowatt - hour (kWh) of solar energy that you send back to the grid.

Virtual net metering (also called virtual net energy metering, or VNEM) uses the same compensation structure as net energy metering (NEM): utilities pay customers the retail rate for the energy that their solar system feeds back to the electric grid, so that they pay only for the net amount of energy they consume.

Enter net energy metering (NEM), a policy in which utilities compensate producers of renewable energy at the retail rate for any excess production that flows back to the grid, allowing them to offset the cost of energy they draw from the grid at times when their system is not producing enough to cover their needs.

The escalating battle centers over two ways traditional utilities have found to counter the rapidly growing solar market: demanding a share of the power generated by renewables and opposing net metering, which allows solar panel users to sell the extra electricity they generate back to the grid — and without which solar might no longer be affordable.

Smart meters, consumer - facing gadgets that help them monitor their consumption, and back - end technologies for water utilities are all part of that push.

Net metering laws help offset some of the cost of a grid - tied wind system by allowing the homeowner to sell extra energy back to the utility at retail prices.

With consumers only just starting to hear the term «smart grid,» let alone trust utilities as they install millions of smart meters in homes nationwide, we're used to hearing stories about how consumers are pushing back against companies like PG&E; during smart meter installation, reporting higher bills thanks to the new meters, or fretting about potential security or privacy breeches.

Regulators approved some grid - facing modernization benefits, but ordered utilities back to the drawing board on automated metering infrastructure.