After a contentious year-long struggle, Virginia regulators delivered a resounding victory for solar-panel owners and advocates, striking down a power company’s attempt to pay less for excess electricity that homeowners with solar panels provide to the grid.
Under the current rules, homeowners with solar panels receive a credit toward future energy use in an amount equal to the excess electricity they provide to the grid, which comes out to about 17.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, according to Cardinal News.
This system is known as “net metering.”
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In August 2024, Appalachian Power began the process of changing its compensation rules, seeking to reimburse solar-panel users only for what…
