The State's Largest Solar array

NH.Solar · 06-15-2017, 07:40 AM

Rich,
The change in the legislated public utilities dollar for dollar net metering has not occurred ...yet, but it is rumored to occur sometime this summer. You will be locked in at the 1 for 1 rate if you have an installation contracted and the interconnect agreement has been filed if/when the change occurs.
For anyone that has been considering solar and is an Eversource, Unitil or Liberty customer, the time to act is now!

SIKSUKR · 06-15-2017, 09:55 AM

Never did the numbers but I just assumed that somebody with the low usage as myself would not make any sense to even consider a solar setup because the payback would take forever. Would I be mistaken? Average bill is about $60 of which only $30 is for the power itself.

bobkatfly · 06-15-2017, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by NH.Solar

Rich,
The change in the legislated public utilities dollar for dollar net metering has not occurred ...yet, but it is rumored to occur sometime this summer. You will be locked in at the 1 for 1 rate if you have an installation contracted and the interconnect agreement has been filed if/when the change occurs.
For anyone that has been considering solar and is an Eversource, Unitil or Liberty customer, the time to act is now!

Just picked up this thread. Very interesting. I put up a 6KW ground mount system in 2012 in Tuftonboro. Have a perfectly South oriented hill so the installation is somewhat hidden from the house although I love looking at it more than my wife. Did it mostly myself. Had to contract some excavating and a licensed electrician for the final tie in. Put in micro inverters setup for net metering only. We are there about 40% of the time until I retire in a year. No air conditioning, electric hot water, oil fueled forced hot water heat, some electric space heat, use a pellet stove during the winter and the house is not very efficient as far as heat loss. I haven't had an electric bill since going online. I believe if I installed air and was there 100% that would change but it would still be well worth the original effort. Our utility supplier is Wolfeboro electric and we've been 1:1 since the install. I'd do it again in a heart beat.

NH Solar, with the potential upcoming exchange rate change you mentioned, would you say I would be grandfathered in to the 1:1 exchange?

Great discussion

NH.Solar · 06-16-2017, 07:53 AM

Siksukr, where your metering fee is already 30 I'll assume that you're a NHEC customer. I agree that going to the effort of installing a solar array probably would be worth the effort for such a small billing. Additionally the Co-op is not subject to the PUC rulings on public utilities and they are already discounting the credits on net metering by about 25%.
Bobcatfly, I'm not fully up to speed on Wolfeboro Power, but I believe that like the Co-op they are exempt form the PUC public utility rulings because it is a privately held company. Still, based on what all the other utilities are presently doing you should remain grandfathered. If this is the case, and WP does go with discounted net metering in the future, smile because your grandfathered array should go up in value due to the grandfathered 1 to 1 exchange

All of this is somewhat uncertain because it will ultimately depend on the impending NH PUC's decision, but one thing is for sure ...there is going to be a major shakeup this summer and anyone that already has a solar system installed, or booked to be installed with the interconnect application in place will appear to have locked in a significant advantage going forward

06-15-2017, 07:40 AM	#1
NH.Solar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Jackson Pond, New Hampton Posts: 240 Thanks: 48 Thanked 142 Times in 79 Posts	Discounted net metering Rich, The change in the legislated public utilities dollar for dollar net metering has not occurred ...yet, but it is rumored to occur sometime this summer. You will be locked in at the 1 for 1 rate if you have an installation contracted and the interconnect agreement has been filed if/when the change occurs. For anyone that has been considering solar and is an Eversource, Unitil or Liberty customer, the time to act is now! __________________ Peter NH Solar

06-15-2017, 09:55 AM	#2
SIKSUKR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,075 Thanks: 215 Thanked 903 Times in 509 Posts	Never did the numbers but I just assumed that somebody with the low usage as myself would not make any sense to even consider a solar setup because the payback would take forever. Would I be mistaken? Average bill is about $60 of which only $30 is for the power itself. __________________ SIKSUKR

06-16-2017, 07:53 AM	#4
NH.Solar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Jackson Pond, New Hampton Posts: 240 Thanks: 48 Thanked 142 Times in 79 Posts	Siksukr, where your metering fee is already 30 I'll assume that you're a NHEC customer. I agree that going to the effort of installing a solar array probably would be worth the effort for such a small billing. Additionally the Co-op is not subject to the PUC rulings on public utilities and they are already discounting the credits on net metering by about 25%. Bobcatfly, I'm not fully up to speed on Wolfeboro Power, but I believe that like the Co-op they are exempt form the PUC public utility rulings because it is a privately held company. Still, based on what all the other utilities are presently doing you should remain grandfathered. If this is the case, and WP does go with discounted net metering in the future, smile because your grandfathered array should go up in value due to the grandfathered 1 to 1 exchange All of this is somewhat uncertain because it will ultimately depend on the impending NH PUC's decision, but one thing is for sure ...there is going to be a major shakeup this summer and anyone that already has a solar system installed, or booked to be installed with the interconnect application in place will appear to have locked in a significant advantage going forward __________________ Peter NH Solar