Regulatory TREND. Solar plus storage revenue streams. Where. Who. What.

Where: Massachusetts

Who: Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities

What? The Department of Public Utilities approved the following 4 items:

• On-site net metering: “a storage resource solely charges from a net metering facility such as a solar component and doesn’t export power to the grid;​”
• Net metering and exports: “a storage resource charges exclusively from the net metering facility but is allowed to export power back to the grid;”
• Non-export: “a storage system charges from either a net metering facility or the grid, but cannot export back to the grid — ideally for the use of backup power during severe weather”
• storage capacity ownership. owned by the host customer, not the utility

Utility Dive | Massachusetts opens revenue stream to advance solar-plus-storage