New Hampshire Doubles Solar Net Metering Cap

New Hampshire has doubled the caps on energy that both residential and commercial customer-generators of rooftop solar can sell back to the grid, raising the cap from 50 MW to 100 MW. The governor signed H.B. 1116, which was introduced this past March, into law on May 2, 2016.

Net metering programs allow homeowners and other solar customers to sell excess power they generate back to the electrical grid in exchange for a credit. Each New Hampshire utility has a cap on the amount of large-scale projects that can receive credits in their area. Eversource Energy, a company which bills itself as New England's largest energy delivery company, announced in January that it had reached the state regulated limit on the amount of customer generation under New Hampshire's net metering laws.