Improved process will assist customers and vendors
interested in solar power
SALISBURY, Md. – Delmarva Power is making it easier for customers to install solar panels on their rooftops and connect them to the electric distribution system. The changes will allow customers, who are interested in installing solar panels, to bypass the paper process and instead complete a convenient online application. The other change allows an authorized contractor who is selling, leasing or installing the solar panels to quickly get customer information they need to enable installation.
“This quicker and easier access to solar power is another benefit of our company’s recent merger with Exelon,” said Gary Stockbridge, Delmarva Power region president. “We’re responding to customer feedback and helping support the growth of solar power in Delaware and Maryland.”
As part of the merger, Exelon agreed to a number of commitments to foster the development of solar power in Delaware and Maryland.
Any customer who wants to generate power using solar panels needs a new smart meter so that the excess electricity generated by solar can be transferred back to the electric grid, allowing the customer to receive credits on their Delmarva Power bills. With the creation of the new online application portal for solar customers, the process is expected to become even easier. Contractors and self-install customers can access the portal through delmarva.com/gpc.
Under current law, every solar contractor is required to know how much electricity a customer has used in the past before they can install solar panels. This ensures the panels can be correctly sized to match those customers’ needs.
In the past, gathering and providing the customer’s historical usage information to the contractor was a manual process, but the new online system has a secure, automated form that is quick and easy to use.
As of March 30, more than 9,000 customers in the Delmarva Power region use net meters on their homes. That compares to approximately 6,700 a year ago. Delaware and Maryland are among the fastest growing states for solar generation. Find additional information by visiting www.delmarva.com. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/delmarvapower and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/delmarvaconnect. Our mobile app is available at www.delmarva.com/mobileapp.
Bet those solar panels would work out really well over the last few days with rain and gray skies. I'm a pro-coal person. Just stop belly aching about Green missions. If we are to follow that nonsense, it would mean everyone needs to stop breathing because humans release Carbon Monoxide every time they exhale. Plant some trees and get over yourselves.
ReplyDeleteHow is it that you now need a smart meter for solar, but you didn't back before smart meters? Hmm....
ReplyDelete2:50 smart meters allow the power company to know how much juice you are pumping in to the system. With an old meter, it spun the dial backwards - the power company couldn't know and they had to 'pay' you the same amount they were charging you.
ReplyDelete2:49 Better do a fact check! Carbon Monoxide?!!
ReplyDelete313 I'm a smoker so yes. Carbon Monoxide.
ReplyDeleteSolar is got to be a rip off. Used to you would save up to 30% + a year. Now with this new systems you might save 1% or less a year. You had your system paid for within 10 - 15 years now you are constantly paying for the system never paying it off. The companies or now ripping off the consumer with the help of the Power companies. No thank You.
ReplyDeleteTHE LEASE COMPANIES ARE STEALING ALL THE REBATE $ ALL YOU GET IS A LOCKED ELECTRIC RATE,FACT.
DeletePropaganda, Propaganda, Propaganda. Go a-head and buy into this BS.
ReplyDeleteHow do I know - because the power company through every hurdle you could imagine in trying to prevent me from installing solar on my home.
musk gets all the tax rebates and the home owner gets the headache. by hey you want to be seen as doing something good for the environment go ahead. it's all smoke and mirrors!
ReplyDelete