Environment Forum
Global environmental challenges
Which U.S. states make the grade on net-metering?
Advocates for renewable energy hail net-metering as a key policy so that electricity from solar and wind is generated at the same place where it is consumed.
Supporters refer to it as the policy that lets the electric meter spin backwards. It allows people who own solar power systems, for example, export electricity to the grid and earn credits — at retail prices — on their utility bill.
In a new report called “Freeing the Grid,” advocates with several groups grade each state on their net-metering policies.
Environmental trendsetter California tied for fifth, but Colorado got the top spot.
Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey followed Colorado in the ranking, while California, Oregon and Pennsylvania tied for fifth.
Seven states flunked by default. Those states — Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — have no statewide net-metering policy.
The report also looked at how states fare on another key policy: interconnection standards, which determine how a generator on a customer’s site plugs into the electricity grid.
The study named Virginia, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, DC and Maryland as the top winners, respectively, in that realm. California came in at number 12, with a B.
(Photo Credit: Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters)
Comments RSSPost Your Comment
- We moderate all comments and will publish everything that advances the story directly or with relevant tangential information
- We try not to publish comments that we think are offensive or appear to pass you off as another person, and we will be conservative if comments may be considered libelous.
Follow Environment Forum
How is the bankrupt state of California going to pay for environmental changes? Let’s have a referendum and see if the taxpayers want to pay for this latest big government idea.
thank you for this artile