Rocky Mountain Power Solar Changes

Rocky mountain power customers who submit applications to interconnect on site renewables such as rooftop solar are now part of a new transition program.

Rocky mountain power solar changes.

Salt lake city rocky mountain power is proposing decreasing the compensation rate it pays to new rooftop solar customers for the excess energy they generate dropping it from 9 2 cents per kilowatt hour to as low as 1 56 cents per kilowatt hour. With additional repair crews for partner utilities from iowa and nevada rocky mountain power continued the non stop work to restore service to customers after hurricane strength winds in excess of 110 mph in some areas ripped through areas of utah wyoming and idaho beginning early tuesday sept. Key components of a solar generation system. This program will be available to new customers until the program cap is reached or until the export credit proceeding is completed around late 2020.

Get your power from a 20 megawatt solar plant in millard county utah subscribe in blocks of 200 kilowatt hours kwh to offset your usage on your bill or choose full coverage where all of your kwh is billed on the subscriber solar rate. Interconnection refers to the process of connecting a solar power system to rocky mountain power s grid. Changes to rocky mountain power s net metering price can t go into effect unless the proposal is reviewed and approved by the utah public service commission. In 2017 rocky mountain power proposed a net metering rate for solar customers that would have made solar unfavorable to homeowners.

If you are planning a larger generation project greater than 25 kw and plan to sell power to rocky mountain power information is available on qualifying facilities grid connection requests and market based incentives. Keep your subscription for up to 20 years. Customers are responsible for all costs associated with any modifications that may be required to interconnect to the larger grid. The commission could approve all.

From start to finish the interconnection process takes about 70 days.