Buyer's Guide 2024
Net Metering
Solar & Battery Regulation & Incentive Programs
Program Overview
- Category
- Regulatory Policy
- Program Type
- Net Metering
- Implementing Sector
- State
- State
- New York
- Eligible Storage Technologies
- Solar Photovoltaics, Wind (All), Biomass, Combined Heat & Power, Fuel Cells using Non-Renewable Fuels, Wind (Small), Hydroelectric (Small), Anaerobic Digestion, Fuel Cells using Renewable Fuels
- Applicable Utilities
- Investor-owned utilities
- System Capacity Limit
- Solar: 25 kW for residential; 100 kW for farms; 2 MW for non-residential
Wind: 25 kW for residential; 500 kW for farm-based; 2 MW for non-residential
Micro-hydroelectric: 25 kW for residential; 2 MW for non-residential
Fuel Cells: 10 kW for residential; 1.5 MW for non-residential
Biogas: 2 MW (farm-based only)
Micro-CHP: 10 kW (residential only) - Aggregate Capacity Limit
- No specific aggregate capacity limit. It was previously set at 6% of utility's 2005 demand for solar, farm-based biogas, fuel cells, micro-hydroelectric, and residential micro-CHP, and 0.3% of utility's 2005 demand for wind.
- Net Excess Generation
- Existing Net metered Customers: Generally credited to customer's next bill at retail rate (except avoided-cost rate for micro-CHP and fuel cells); excess for residential PV and wind and farm-based biogas is reconciled annually at avoided-cost rate; excess for micro-hydro, non-residential wind and solar, and residential micro-CHP and fuel cells carries over indefinitely
Phase One transition tariffs: Credits carried over to the next monthly billing period, and over annual periods, however unused credits will be forfeited at the end of the contract. - Ownership of Renewable Energy Credits
- Generally not eligible for trading or Tier I RES compliance with exceptions for Community Distributed Energy projects.
- Meter Aggregation
- Allowed for non-residential and farm-based customers with solar, wind, farm-based biogas, and micro-hydroelectric systems.
Community net metering is allowed. - Administrator
- Applicable Sectors
- Commercial, Industrial, Local Government, Nonprofit, Residential, Schools, State Government, Federal Government, Agricultural, Institutional
- Budget
- Last Updated
- 07/26/2021
- Funding Source
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