Solar panel installation on roof

CEA’s James Voyles discusses solar incentives in New England with Utility Dive.

The current Massachusetts policy returns 185% of the installed cost of a 3.9 kW customer-owned facility and 182% of a 6-kW customer-owned facility, according to recent Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) research. Using the same methodology, CEA reports in its filing that residential rooftop solar systems would receive “incentive rates in a range from 199% of the installed system costs, if the system receives both net energy metering and [Next Generation tariff] incentives, to 141% of the installed system costs, if the system only receives the NextGen incentives.”

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