Electric Utilities Fight Rooftop Solar

Solar power adds up to less than one percent of the nations energy portfolio. But utility companies across the US are feeling threatened and want to remove net metering, a key economic incentive for rooftop solar.

Net metering is the system by which utilities keep track of how much energy is produced by an individual rooftop solar array. Its crucial to the economic viability of residential solar production. (bigstockphoto.com)