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During this time where generation is greater than consumption, the home's electricity meter will run backward to provide a credit on the homeowner's electricity bill. [12] The value of solar electricity is less than the retail rate, so net metering customers are actually subsidized by all other customers of the electric utility. [13]
In 1978, during a national energy crisis, Congress passed PURPA to encourage alternative energy sources at a time when gas was scarce. PURPA required that electric utilities purchase renewable energy from certain sources. Under the law, utilities were required to charge rates to customers that were reasonable. [25]
Growth of net metering in the United States. Net metering is a policy by many states in the United States designed to help the adoption of renewable energy.Net metering was pioneered in the United States as a way to allow solar and wind to provide electricity whenever available and allow use of that electricity whenever it was needed, beginning with utilities in Idaho in 1980, and in Arizona ...
OpEd: The new rules will result in higher power bills and more frequent blackouts, hurting quality of life and stunting our economy. New EPA rules clash with Kentucky’s ‘homegrown energy ...
Notably, the same report found that solar customers do pay more on their power bills than what it costs the utility to serve them (Table 5, page 10: average 103% of their cost of service across the three major utilities in 2011). [16]
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PACE was originally known as a "Special Energy Financing District" or "on-tax bill solar and efficiency financing." [citation needed] The concept was first conceived and proposed [citation needed] in the Monterey Bay Regional Energy Plan in 2005 [6] but followed voter approval of a similar solar bonds program approved by San Francisco voters in ...