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Member-Owned Solar Interconnect
With an increasing number of homeowners investing in solar, an upfront understanding of member-owned interconnection is important in your entire decision-making process about your energy options.
Generate an estimate of your solar generation potential, ongoing utility costs and estimated payback period for a rooftop solar system. Before making a decision, CEC. As your trusted energy advisor, we can help you make smart energy investments.
While power on the utility grid normally flows from power plants to customers, the grid can also receive small amounts of power from small solar installations. Feeding renewable energy to the cooperative's power grid requires an interconnection agreement with Coastal Electric.
At the same time, interconnection agreements allow homeowners to pull power from the power lines when their solar panels aren’t producing enough energy.
This give-and-take process requires utility interconnection with Coastal Electric, so specific steps must be taken during installation and an interconnection agreement completed.
Read on for more and complete the agreement form below.
Pricing
Standard Solar Metering
$25 Facility Charge
- Energy rate for all metered energy at residential retail rate.
- No energy credits or saved (banked) excess solar energy.
Net Solar Metering
$55 Facility Charge
- Energy rate for all metered energy at residential retail rate, minus 2 cents.
- Excess energy produced by your solar panels can be saved (banked) and applied as a credit to future power bills.
- Energy credits are zeroed out each year in October.
Aggregate Net Solar Metering
$65 primary meter only / $25 other aggregate meters Facility Charge
- Energy rate for all metered energy at residential retail rate, minus 2 cents on primary meter.
- Other aggregate meters at standard rate.
- Excess energy produced by your solar panels can be saved (banked) and applied as a credit to future power bills.
- Energy credits are zeroed out each year in October.
- Solar energy may be applied to 1 or more member accounts regardlesss of where solar panels are located.
To complete set up of Member-Owned Solar with Coastal Electric Cooperative:
- Complete the Member-Owned Solar online form below
- Download the Solar Options Agreement, complete it, and return it to us
- Contact us to discuss Member-Owned Solar