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Funding Resources
| VT Net Metering Standards | |
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| Type of Incentive | Net Metering |
| Eligible States | VT |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | # 2 Fuel Oil, # 6 Fuel Oil, Biogas, Biomass, Coal, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other, Tire-Derived Fuel, Waste Heat Recovery |
| Eligible Project Size | 0-0.250 |
| Critical Information | Eligible Technologies: Solar Thermal Electric, Photovoltaics, Landfill Gas, Wind, Biomass, Hydroelectric, CHP/Cogeneration, Anaerobic Digestion, Fuel Cells using Renewable Fuels Size Limitations: 250 kW (farm systems and "group net metering" systems may be larger, but net metering applies only up to 250 kW) Overall Enrollment Restrictions: Two percent of each utility's 1996 peak demand or peak demand during most recent calendar year (whichever is greater) Net Excess: Credited to customer's next bill at utility's retail rate; granted to utility at end of 12-month billing cycle |
| Start Date | 3/19/2008 |
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| Additional Information | Net metering is generally available to systems up to 250 kilowatts (kW) in capacity that generate electricity using eligible renewable-energy resources, and to micro-combined heat and power (CHP) systems up to 20 kW. "Renewable energy" is defined as "energy produced using a technology that relies on a resource that is being consumed at a harvest rate at or below its natural regeneration rate." Biogas from sewage-treatment plants and landfills, and anaerobic digestion of agricultural products, byproducts and wastes are explicitly included. (The term "renewable energy" explicitly excludes solid waste that is not agricultural or silvicultural, as well as nuclear fuel, coal, oil, propane and natural gas.) Vermont has established special provisions to allow "group net metering" and net metering for farm-based renewable-energy systems. The capacity of a net-metered, on-farm system or "group net metering" system may exceed 250 kilowatts if (1) the customer-generator signs a contract with its utility specifying the amount to be net metered, (2) the net-metered amount does not exceed 250 kW, and (3) only the amount assigned to net metering is assessed to the utility's cumulative capacity limit. Net metering is available on a first-come, first-served basis until the cumulative capacity of net-metered systems equals two percent of a utility's peak demand during 1996 or the peak demand during the most recent full calendar year, whichever is greater. |
| Web Site | http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=VT02R&state=VT&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1  |
| Primary Contact | Kelly Launder Energy Programs Specialist 112 State Street Montpelier, VT 5620 U.S.A. Kelly Launder (kelly.launder@state.vt.us) (802) 828-4039 |