Almost every state has already taken some action on its net measurement policy in the first three months of 2025, according to a report published by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC).
Q1 2025 Policy promotion on net measurement, rate design and solar ownership. NC Clean Energy Technology Center
The NCCETC has issued its Q1 2025 edition of “The 50 States of Solar Energy“A quarterly report that provides insights into the regulatory and legislative discussions and actions of the state and actions about distributed sun policy. It focuses on net measurement, distributed solar valuation, interconnection rules, community sun, residential fixed costs, requirements of homes and solar charge and third party occupation.
“This quarter, supervisors throughout the country took action to implement iterations on community programs for the community within their jurisdictions. Many of these iterations were powered by recently established legislation,” said Vincent Potter, project manager at NCCETC. “Some programs shift from pilots to permanent programs, while others are on their way to program designs aimed at customer participation with a low income.”
The report shows that 47 states, plus DC and Puerto Rico, have taken a kind of distributed sunbel policy actions during the first quarter of 2025, with the largest number of actions that continue to tackle the net measurement policy (55), Community solar policy (35) and fixed charge or minimum invoice increases. A total of 193 distributed actions of the sun policy were taken during Q1 2025, with most actions in Virginia, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Michigan and New Hampshire.
The report finds three trends from these activities of the sunbathing policy-that states iterative revisions consider the net measurement policy, the revision of community programs for the community and expanding the system size limits for non-residential net-measured systems.
“About a third of the states offers alternatives to traditional net measurement, with additional states that use traditional net measurements with important revisions. Now some of these states are investigating new major revisions of their successors, in speaking,” said Rebekah de la Mora, senior policy analyst at NCCETC. “Some of these assessments were imposed by the legislative authority, while others were put forward by utilities, or even utilities themselves.”
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