Solar Power

OPALCO doesn’t recommend specific installers, but we do have a list of local installers to help you get started.

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The policy covers interconnection of any member owned generating facilities, storage facilities or other facilities supplying energy to the OPALCO grid.

Please read Member Service Policy 13 for more information.

Pay special attention to requirements. Projects must meet OPALCO Interconnect Standards. Presently, 200 kilowatts is the maximum size for a system.

• Interconnection Application
• Agreement for interconnection

A Member Generator’s billing meter is the meter presented on their monthly OPALCO bill.  It measures two things:

• The flow of electricity from the grid toward the house (power the household consumes from OPALCO)
• The flow of electricity “backward” (what their renewable system feeds back to the OPALCO grid when the system produces more power than the household needs)

When you deliver energy to the grid, you will receive a credit on your next bill. This will be noted on your bill as a Generation Credit. You will carry that credit until you use it all up and start consuming more power than you are generating.

The production meter accounts for every kWh the member’s renewable system generates. This meter reading represents total kWhs produced and is indifferent to the way the power is distributed (whether to the member’s home or to the OPALCO grid).

If the member participates in state and local production incentive programs, OPALCO obtains a reading from the member’s production meter annually on June 30th to calculate the incentives.