Solar Panel Laws in Connecticut

Going green in the Constitution State has never been easier thanks in large part to progressive solar panel laws.

These new regulations that have been implemented specifically to get electricity consumers off the grid and producing their own electricity.

Here are three of those laws that can get you saving green while going green!

3 Solar Panel Laws in Connecticut That Will Save You Money

1) Public Act No. 13-298

Also known as An Act Concerning Implementation of Connecticut’s Comprehensive Energy Strategy and Various Revisions to the Energy Statutes, this law allows agricultural customers to run solar farms of up to 3 megawatts and sell the solar power they collect there to serve the needs of up to 10 other farms.

2) Net metering and progressive RPS

An RPS, or renewable portfolio standard, is a law that requires a certain amount of power be generated by renewable means by a certain date.

Connecticut boasts an RPS mandating that 7% of power in the state be derived from renewables by 2010, and 23% by 2020.

To achieve this, the state is providing incentives that will produce at least 30 megawatts of new residential solar production by the end of 2022.

The state is also providing for net metering for all sites up to 2 megawatts, which means excess energy you produce will be credited directly back to you.

3) Solar Home Renewable Energy Credits

To further incentivize the use of solar power, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is supporting a measure that aims to create the first market for residential solar energy credits for the state.

If implemented, this would further increase the amount that electricity customers are able to both save and be credited for.

So whether it’s through allowing agricultural customers to run solar farms and sell the solar power they collect there, providing customers with progressive RPS laws as well as net metering, or further incentivizing solar power through solar home renewable energy credits, electricity customers in the state of Connecticut have never had a better opportunity to save some green while going green!

Click here to see if you qualify for solar energy in Connecticut.