Net metering credits can be used to offset
retail electricity purchased during other time periods.
Not exact matches
Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to
purchase all of their
electricity from the grid at the utility's
retail rate and receive credit for the solar
electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.
We also looked at 2015 commercial prices of
electricity from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the 2014 costs of
purchasing and renting industrial, office, and
retail space per square foot from CoStar Group Inc..
The city of Hudson is leading the pack for now with the announcement it will
purchase electricity through
retailer Viridian Energy.
The problem in New England, which has resulted in
electricity prices that are four times higher than normal for sustained periods, is that all of the pipeline transmission capacity has been
purchased by the local gas distribution companies that sell gas for home heating and
retail uses.
Wholesale power market: The
purchase and sale of
electricity from generators to resellers (who sell to
retail customers), along with the ancillary services needed to maintain reliability and power quality at the transmission level.
In 2016 over 963,000
retail purchasers of Green - e certified renewable energy — including over 53,000 businesses —
purchased over 48 million megawatt ‐ hours of Green - e certified
electricity, enough to power nearly a third of U.S. households for a month.
In a two - year deal brokered with Green Mountain Energy, a renewable power and carbon offset
retailer recently acquired by NRG Energy of New Jersey, the Empire State Building will
purchase 55 million kilowatt - hours worth of renewable energy certificates annually — enough to cover its yearly
electricity consumption.
Since the utility is not
purchasing power from the Amazon Wind Farm US East, the wind farm is not counted in rates for
retail electricity customers.
A solar power
purchase agreement, or PPA, allows a host customer to pay for generated
electricity at a fixed rate typically lower than the local utility's
retail rate.
Under net metering, excess
electricity generated by the solar installation is valued at the same
retail rate customers would pay the utility for it, which allows them to cancel out the cost of
electricity they
purchase from their utility at other times.
According to company press information, «The Lightsource private - wire Power
Purchase Agreement (PPA) will see large - scale solar sites «hard - wired» directly into large
electricity users — comfortably beating the
retail price that they are paying for
electricity.»