@ABCDE
Nope. No buy-back from MECO where I live (north Kihei). Maybe it's neighborhood-dependent? Somebody (maybe you?) mentioned this at the time I was getting the installation and I asked my installer, who definitely knows his business, and at least at my location, there's no buy-back. I'd have given them my excess power for free just to reduce fossil fuel usage. They won't take it.
According to this web page "The Net Energy Metering (NEM) program is closed to new applicants." There may be a program allowing customers to sell power to MECO between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m, which would mean giving them some power from my batteries at night. That would increase the cycle depth on my batteries, and probably not worth it. I could probably afford to give them back 10 kWh on a typical night, which would be about $3.50 (?) a night, or something over $1,000/year. Probably not worth the decreased battery life. I'm not sure.
Pretty sure 30% was the combined federal & state tax credit. As you noted, $5,000 of that was Hawai'i.
Nope. No buy-back from MECO where I live (north Kihei). Maybe it's neighborhood-dependent? Somebody (maybe you?) mentioned this at the time I was getting the installation and I asked my installer, who definitely knows his business, and at least at my location, there's no buy-back. I'd have given them my excess power for free just to reduce fossil fuel usage. They won't take it.
According to this web page "The Net Energy Metering (NEM) program is closed to new applicants." There may be a program allowing customers to sell power to MECO between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m, which would mean giving them some power from my batteries at night. That would increase the cycle depth on my batteries, and probably not worth it. I could probably afford to give them back 10 kWh on a typical night, which would be about $3.50 (?) a night, or something over $1,000/year. Probably not worth the decreased battery life. I'm not sure.
Pretty sure 30% was the combined federal & state tax credit. As you noted, $5,000 of that was Hawai'i.