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	Net Metering - E-Files - Sierra Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Net metering might sound like a way to keep track of how much time the kids are spending in AOL chat rooms, but it's actually an innovative way to encourage alternative energy use at the residential and small-business level.
		Before net metering, you could keep track that electricity with a separate meter and, if you were lucky, the power company might compensate you for it at wholesale price.
		Because net metering is regulated at the state level, the rules for how it works vary from state to state.
	www.sierraclub.org /e-files/net_metering.asp (338 words)

	Net Metering
		Net metering allows residential customers who generate electricity from small renewable systems such as wind turbines or photovoltaic arrays to sell electricity back to a utility for the same amount that they pay to receive it.
		In the absense of net metering, residents who want to receive credit for any excess electricity they generate are typically required to have two separate electricity meters: one to measure the electricity they take off the power grid and one to measure the electricity they send to the power grid.
		Under net metering customers are billed only for their net electricity usage, the amount of electricity they consume minus the amount of electricity they produce as measured through a single electric meter.
	www.ss.mtu.edu /gorman/NetMetering.htm (890 words)

	Net Metering - Introduction
		Net metering is a special metering and billing agreement between utilities and their customers, which facilitates the connection of small, renewable energy-generating systems to the power grid.
		Net metering customers are charged only for the “net” power that they consume from the electricity service provider that has accumulated over a designated period or, if their renewable energy-generating systems make more electricity than is consumed, they may be credited or paid for the excess electricity contributed to the grid over that same period.
		Net metering is also a way to increase the energy in the power grid to keep up with increases in demand during peak power-use times, which is particularly of interest to states facing power shortages.
	www.serconline.org /netmetering/index.html (401 words)

	What are Net Billing & Net Metering?
		Under net metering, excess electricity produced by the wind turbine will spin the existing home or business electricity meter backwards, effectively banking the electricity until it is needed by the customer.
		Net metering simplifies this arrangement by allowing the customer to use any excess electricity to offset electricity used at other times during the billing period.
		This means the ‘netting’ process associated with net metering happens automatically — the meter spins forward (in the normal direction) when the customer needs more electricity than is being produced, and spins backward when the customer is producing more electricity than is needed in the home or building.
	www.awea.org /faq/netbdef.html (907 words)

	Tacoma Power Net Metering
		Net metering is the interconnection of electricity generating devices such as solar modules to the utility electricity grid.
		Net metering means that on a home with the standard primary utility meter, this meter records the net of the customer's use of utility electricity and their electricity generation.
		The concept of net metering programs is to allow the electric meters of customers with generating facilities to turn backwards when their generators are producing more energy than the customers' demand.
	www.ci.tacoma.wa.us /power/greenpower/net-metering/net_metering.htm (911 words)

	Solar Energy Technologies Program: PV Systems and Net Metering
		Net metering is a policy that allows homeowners to receive the full value of the electricity that their solar energy system produces.
		With net metering, the customer's electric meter will run backward when the solar electric system produces more power than is needed to operate the home or business at that time.
		Net metering allows homeowners who are not home when their systems are producing electricity to still receive the full value of that electricity without having to install a battery storage system.
	www.eere.energy.gov /solar/net_metering.html (700 words)

	Green Power Network: Net Metering Policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Net metering enables customers to use their own generation to offset their consumption over a billing period by allowing their electric meters to turn backwards when they generate electricity in excess of the their demand.
		Without net metering, a second meter is usually installed to measure the electricity that flows back to the provider, with the provider purchasing the power at a rate much lower than the retail rate.
		For a more detailed description of state net metering policies and links to the authorizing legislation, see the DSIRE database, which is a project of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council funded by the U.S. DOE and managed by the North Carolina Solar Center.
	www.eere.energy.gov /greenpower/markets/netmetering.shtml (383 words)

	ProVision Technologies, Inc - Net Metering
		Net metering allows your electricity meter to spin forward when electricity flows from the utility into your building, and backward when your system produces surplus electricity that is not immediately used.
		Net metering simplifies the metering process in two ways: it eliminates the need for a second meter, and it streamlines the accounting process by eliminating the need for payments from your electricity provider.
		Without net metering, any electricity you generated and did not immediately use would be sold back to the utility at the "avoided cost" rate, which is much lower than the retail rates.
	www.provisiontechnologies.com /net_metering.html (625 words)

	Net Metering
		Net metering allows homeowners to receive the full value for the electricity that their solar energy system produces.
		Net metering allows homeowners with such systems to use any excess electricity they produce to offset their electric bill.
		Under net metering, the electric meter of the customer will run backwards when their solar electric system is producing more energy than they need to operate their home at that time.
	www.montanagreenpower.com /greenpower/netmetering.html (665 words)

	Clallam PUD : Alternative Energy : Net Metering
		Clallam County PUD offers Net Metering to customers who wish to generate their own electricity with fuel cells or solar, wind or hydro powered electric systems of 25 kilowatt or less in generating capacity.
		If your meter ran backward more than forward in a given billing cycle, you would be a “net generator” for that billing cycle, and the NEG would appear as a credit on your next bill.
		Another alternative to net metering is to arrange for metering and sale of the electricity you generate as a “qualifying facility” under PURPA rules.
	www.clallampud.net /conservation/alt-net-metering.html (785 words)

	Net Metering : Energy Efficiency : Vermont Department of Public Service
		Net metering makes it easier and more cost-effective for farmers and other Vermonters to generate some of their own electricity.
		Utilities must allow net metered systems on a first-come, first-served basis to all customers until the cumulative generating capacity of all the net metering systems on its lines equals one percent of the company's peak demand.
		Prior to net metering, self-generators had to install expensive battery banks to store the power they needed or go through lengthy negotiations with their utilities to have them buy any extra power generated.
	publicservice.vermont.gov /energy-efficiency/ee_netmetering.html (623 words)

	RNP: Resources: Net Metering
		Net metering measures the difference between the electricity you buy from your utility and the electricity you produce using your own generating equipment.
		Net metering allows you to use the electric grid, and the company that otherwise supplies you with electricity, as if it were a big battery.
		Net metering, thus, might result in your meter turning backwards at mid-day when the sun is the strongest and running forwards at night when a solar system stops operating.
	www.rnp.org /Resources/netmeter.html (1384 words)

	Ontario Ministry of Energy :: Renewable Energy : Net Metering
		Net metering means you no longer need to purchase expensive batteries or a backup generator – or factor those costs into the price of installing a renewable energy generation system.
		Net metering is available to any Ontario customer who generates electricity primarily for their own use from a renewable source (wind, water, solar or agricultural biomass), using equipment of maximum cumulative output up to 500 kilowatts in size.
		Net metering is a multi-step process that requires careful consideration.
	www.energy.gov.on.ca /index.cfm?fuseaction=renewable.netmetering (904 words)

	Net Metering State Activity Page
		Net metering is not required by the state, but several utilities offer net metering options for their customers with small generators.
		Minnesota’s statute based net metering laws were established in 1983 and apply to all of the state’s utilities’ investor-owned utilities, municipalities and rural cooperatives.
		Net consumption is billed at the applicable tariff, and excess generation by the customers during a billing cycle is purchased by utilities at the avoided cost (fuel cost only, no capacity component).
	www.serconline.org /netmetering/stateactivity.html (5592 words)

	New Rules Project - Democratic Energy - Consumers as Producers - Net Metering of Electricity
		Net metering is a practice that encourages consumer investment in on-site electric generators - typically small-scale, renewable energy technologies.
		Without net metering, small customer/generators usually have two meters, one measuring incoming electricity, for which they pay the retail rate, and one measuring the power they produce, for which they are compensated only at the utility's avoided cost.
		Two states, Minnesota and Wisconsin, stand out from the crowd because their net metering rules allow participants to be paid the going retail rate for the net excess electricity they generate for each billing cycle.
	www.newrules.org /electricity/nmeter.html (702 words)

	LIPA \| Clean Energy Initiative \| Solar Pioneer Program
		At the end of each month, the net metered customer is billed only for the net consumption, that is, the amount of electricity consumed, less the amount of electricity produced.
		This means the 'netting' process associated with net metering happens automatically-the meter spins forward (in the normal direction) when the consumer needs more electricity than is being produced, and spins backward when the consumer is producing more electricity than is needed in the house or building.
		During the month, if a net metered customer generates more energy from their PV system than he/she consumes from LIPA, the customer is billed for the daily service charge only (meter charge) and the excess generation in kilowatt hours (credits) is placed in an “energy bank”.
	www.lipower.org /cei/solar.metering.html (1618 words)

	California's Emerging Renewables Program - Net Metering
		Net Metering measures the difference between the electricity you buy from your utility and the electricity you generate using your own solar or wind generating equipment.
		You are eligible for Net Metering if you are a residential or small commercial electricity customer in California, and generate at least some of your electricity using solar or wind energy, or a combination of both, with a system capacity of one megawatt or less.
		Net Metering allows you to "store" this excess electricity on the grid, reducing or offsetting the electricity you would otherwise have to purchase.
	www.consumerenergycenter.org /erprebate/net_metering.html (1568 words)

	Net Metering
		Net metering is a provision that allows consumers to install small, grid-connected renewable energy systems to reduce their electric bills.
		Details about Orange and Rockland's net metering program can be found on page 39 of Service Classification Rider N in Orange and Rockland's Schedule for Electric Service.
		New Jersey's net metering law, enacted in February 1999, requires that net metering be offered to residential and small commercial customers with photovoltaic and wind-powered generation systems.
	www.oru.com /programsandservices/billingandmetering/netmetering.html (251 words)

	Ohio Supreme Court Limits Net Metering Incentive
		Supporters of Ohio's net metering statute were disappointed with the June 5, 2002 Ohio Supreme Court decision limiting the financial incentives for electric utility consumers who place a solar, wind or other distributed technology on their home or business.
		This means that the full retail rate is not credited by net metering for excess power into the grid since the average generation rate is only about 3.3¢/kilowatt hour of the 12¢/kilowatt hour retail rate for First Energy (numbers are smaller, but in similar proportion for other Ohio investor-owned utilities).
		Net metering is viewed as one of only a few financial incentives for renewable energy in Ohio, in addition to the low-interest loan fund and Ohio Air Quality Development Authority financing.
	www.greenenergyohio.org /page.cfm?pageId=322 (504 words)

	net metering
		Net metering regulations were intended to encourage the installation of solar generators, wind turbines and other renewable energy and green power sources.
		In practice, most net metering customers require a second meter to measure energy which is returned to the system, and utilities don't pay the same amount to producers as they receive from customers.
		The cost of the extra meter and any additional accounting charges are typically charged back to the net metering customer, and it can often cost a small customer with low production capability more money to participate in the program than they receive in revenues from the energy they produce.
	www.energyvortex.com /energydictionary/net_metering.html (243 words)

	Net metering available statewide - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		When the meters run backward, the power company is effectively buying power at the same price for which it sells power — without getting repaid for the cost of its utility grid, maintenance, billing and other services.
		But net metering, as much as anything else, is an incentive for further development of alternative power technologies, and a demonstration that they work.
		While net metering is available for virtually any kind of renewable energy system, all the ones signed up to date have been solar photovoltaic systems: homes set up with big solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2001/Dec/10/ln/ln14a.html (604 words)

	FAQ.Net-Metering
		The second problem with double metering is that for the utilities, it results in significant administrative costs associated with the manual processing of a few special accounts.
		Currently, 28 states require at least some utilities to offer net metering for small wind systems, although the requirements vary from state to state.
		In most of the states with net metering statutes, all utilities are required to offer net metering for small wind systems.
	www.bergey.com /School/FAQ.Net-Metering.html (1125 words)

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