18 Facts About Net metering

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Net metering is an electricity billing mechanism that allows consumers who generate some or all of their own electricity to use that electricity anytime, instead of when it is generated.

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Monthly net metering allows consumers to use solar power generated during the day at night, or wind from a windy day later in the month.

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Net metering uses a single, bi-directional meter and can measure the current flowing in two directions.

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Net metering can be implemented solely as an accounting procedure, and requires no special metering, or even any prior arrangement or notification.

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Net metering is an enabling policy designed to foster private investment in renewable energy.

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Net metering originated in the United States, where small wind turbines and solar panels were connected to the electrical grid, and consumers wanted to be able to use the electricity generated at a different time or date from when it was generated.

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The first two projects to use net metering were an apartment complex and a solar test house in Massachusetts in 1979.

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Net metering was slow to be adopted in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, because of confusion over how to address the value added tax .

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Net metering is controversial as it affects different interests on the grid.

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10.

The key challenge to constructing pricing and rebate schemes in a post-net metering environment is how to compensate rooftop solar customers fairly while not imposing costs on non-solar customers.

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Experts have said that a good "successor tariff, " as the post-net metering policies have been called, is one that supports the growth of distributed energy resources in a way where customers and the grid get benefits from it.

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Time of use net metering employs a smart meter that is programmed to determine electricity usage any time during the day.

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Time of use Net metering is a significant issue for renewable-energy sources, since, for example, solar power systems tend to produce most energy at noon and produce little power during the daytime peak-price period, and no power during the night period when price is low.

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Net metering applies such variable pricing to excess power produced by a qualifying system.

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Market rate metering systems were implemented in California starting in 2006, and under the terms of California's net metering rules will be applicable to qualifying photovoltaic and wind systems.

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Net metering enables small systems to result in zero annual net cost to the consumer provided that the consumer is able to shift demand loads to a lower price time, such as by chilling water at a low cost time for later use in air conditioning, or by charging a battery electric vehicle during off-peak times, while the electricity generated at peak demand time can be sent to the grid rather than used locally .

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Net metering is a policy by many states in the United States designed to help the adoption of renewable energy.

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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 in 1981.

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