One thing New York has lots of is roofs, and for many of them, not much happens on them. That could all be about to change.
The State has just passed legislation that will update its net metering standard, from the tiny and almost insignificant 10 kilo Watt cap for solar installations, limited to residential only, up to a gold-standard 2 Mega Watt, available to all customer classes. It is expected that this will have a critical impact on opening the market for large scale solar installations in New York, and is viewed as a significant step towards building a major solar market in the Big Apple. (Net metering allows a customer’s electricity meter to “spin backwards,” providing a credit on their utility bill when their on-site renewable energy systems send unused power to the grid.)
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