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Net Metering
Also Known As Net Energy Metering (NEM)
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Net metering is a utility billing arrangement that credits a customer who generates some or all of their own electricity, typically from rooftop solar, for surplus power sent back to the grid, allowing that credit to offset consumption at another time rather than requiring the electricity to be used the instant it is produced. It is a central mechanism for how small-scale renewable generation is compensated in many markets. Minnesota is commonly cited as passing the first net metering law in the United States, in 1983.
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Concept Domain Formulated YearMinnesota's 1983 law is commonly cited as the first state net-metering statute; utilities in Idaho (1980) and Arizona (1981) offered net metering informally before it was codified into state law, so the 1983 date names the first formal statute, not the first instance of the practice. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Both are US state-level renewable-support policy mechanisms that frequently coexist in the same jurisdiction.
Rooftop solar photovoltaics is the dominant real-world use case for net metering programs.
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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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Minnesota is commonly cited as passing the first net metering law, in 1983.
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Net metering (or net energy metering, NEM) 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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Minnesota is commonly cited as passing the first net metering law, in 1983, and allowed anyone generating less than 40 kW to either roll over any credit to the next month, or be paid for the excess.
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A feed-in tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies by offering long-term contracts to renewable energy producers.
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