Sentences with phrase «over net metering»

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.

[ii] MIT Technology Review, Battles Over Net Metering Cloud the Future of Rooftop Solar, January 5, 2016, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/545146/battles-over-net-metering-cloud-the-future-of-rooftop-solar/

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.

Not exact matches

Here I'm watching Totti rocket shots from 40 meters deep and Pallotta is standing on the sideline with his back turned, in an empty goal clutching the netting peering over to the other field with delusions of grandeur that one day we'll have 11 Pulisic's suiting up for Roma.

It claims over a 20 - year period the installation of smart meters could result in a net benefit of up to # 3.6 billion.

«I am from the future» The Hawaii development comes amid battles in California, Arizona and Colorado over the future of net energy metering (NEM).

There are many other variations, including what time of year the billing cycle ends, how much net metered customers are compensated for their excess energy, and how long credits can carry over (some utilities allow credits to roll forward indefinitely).

This strategy has been spurred in part by substantial solar tax credits, net - metering rules in place in most states, and the availability of solar financing that reduces or even eliminates the initial purchase price, replacing the up - front cost with monthly payments that extend over many years.

«It has invested over $ 355 million in rooftop solar, but supports an organization doing everything possible to roll back net metering.

However, this report does not acknowledge the fact that almost all Americans that live in a state where power prices are over $ 0.139 also live in a state where there is a net metering law.

Over the past two years, solar consumers around the country have seen utilities, and often state legislatures (often at the behest of the utilities) attempt to restrict net metering benefits and, in some cases, eliminate them entirely.

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Arizona Business Daily In the midst of the controversy over Arizona's net metering policy, one expert at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) suggests several policy reform strategies.

This analysis is probably floored, and the economics probably a little better because power prices will rise over time and batteries partially cycle from moment to moment and so can actually shift more power but this is of little economic benefit when net metering is available (giving near retail rates to exported power) and so the fact remains batteries are still uneconomic by a factor of 300 % even with the SGIP.

With excellent sun exposure and the retail energy price going up net metering will make you a lot of money over the life of your system.

The Boston Globe notes that potential contributing factors include: «uncertainty about changes in solar incentives; caps in some parts of the state on new net metering credits; and concern over a new charge on solar users imposed by [regional utility] Eversource.»

APS appears to be part of a larger national campaign from EEI being implemented, in part, through ALEC's new net metering model language bill that favors the utility industry over distributed solar energy.

Nevada's electric utility company, NV Energy, indicated that restoring net metering under an earlier version of the revised policy would be expensive — over $ 63 million each year, or about $ 1.3 billion over two decades.

We also embrace distributed generation, such as rooftop solar, fuel cells and battery storage, and our utilities in Baltimore and Philadelphia have more than 6,900 net - metered customers with over 100 megawatts of distributed energy.

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.

The architect notes that» Over the last year of electrical usage, with electric cars charging for part of the year, they had a net - meter electric CREDIT, not a payment due for the year.»

The best things we can do to accelerate the switch over to clean energy is to stop subsidizing fossil fuels, create regulation that is more friendly to rooftop solar (net - metering, for example), and put a price on carbon emissions.

Over the past five to six years, electric companies invested in the deployment of nearly 65 million digital smart meters to about 50 percent of U.S. households, one critical technology that enables net metering.

Under traditional net metering, customers are only billed for their net consumption over a billing cycle, meaning that any energy they consume from the utility can later be offset by energy production from their solar installation.