[1] DECC will reduce the upper end to 21p for systems installed after 3rd March [2] The amount paid for
excess electricity exported to the grid, such as during school holidays (see chart on previous page).
In Mississippi this winter, for instance, after the state Public Service Commission for the first time offered rules allowing net metering for solar owners — that practice enables solar owners to get a fair price for
excess electricity they export to the grid — legislators introduced bills that would remove the PSC's right to regulate 70 percent of the state's electricity service, including creating net metering rules.
Not exact matches
With 50 plants running at 10 GW per plant, the US could meet all of its liquid fuel needs, some of its
electricity needs and
export excess liquid fuel.
Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany
exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.
When the
electricity generated by your solar energy system is more than you use in your home, the energy gets
exported back to the grid and your utility buys the
excess electricity from you at a couple cents per kilowatt hour.
Net metering policies also allow end - users to receive a credit or payment for the net
excess electricity that is generated and
exported to the grid.
If your solar array produced enough
electricity, your bill could theoretically reach zero because
excess solar
electricity exported to the grid during the day could cover your power usage at night when solar is not producing.
And
electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from
exports of
excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.
If in any given month your solar system
exports to the Excel grid more
electricity than what your home drew from the grid Excel will pay you for this
excess.
Engensa's first smart home energy product, Solar24 automatically diverts
excess electricity produced by solar panels to a customer's hot water tank rather than
exporting it to the grid.
They an installed capacity of nearly 100 % of their average demand which means that on windy days 100 % of their
electricity comes from wind turbines but it also means that all their other power generation facilites must shut down on windy days or they must
export the
excess power.