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Credit for Solar or Wind Power at Your House
Did you know that if you installed solar panels or a wind turbine on your home, you could be credited on your bill for the electricity you generate?
It’s called residential distributed generation. The credit program was approved last year by the City Council for City of Georgetown residential electric customers. If you are a homeowner and you install a photovoltaic solar unit or a wind turbine of 10 kilowatts or less to generate electricity for your house, your bill will be credited for the electricity that you produce.
In the future, Georgetown could provide a significant portion of its own power needs from its own residents.
Interested in installing solar panels or a wind turbine on you home? Contact the City of Georgetown Inspection Services Department at (512) 930-2550 or by email at inspection@georgetowntx.org to talk to a building inspector.
Currently, the City of Georgetown does not offer rebates for the cost to purchase or install solar panels or wind turbines on your home. The credit is only for electricity you generate at your home. Credits are available for residential customers.
Home solar panels installed before December 31, 2008, could be eligible for a federal tax credit. See the State Energy Conservation Office at www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us for details.
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4 Responses to “Credit for Solar or Wind Power at Your House”
No, I’m sorry, the City does not offer any rebates for air conditioning or heating systems at this time.
At what rate does the City credit residential and commercial customers who produce excess electricity with a Solar Power (PV) system.
The customer shall be entitled to a Produced Energy Credit based upon the energy produced and delivered by the power producing facility into the City’s Electric Utility System during a specific billing period. In a billing month, if the customer uses more energy than their distributed generation system produces, the additional electricity consumed is billed at the standard residential rate for the service. If the customer uses less energy than the distributed generation system produces, the excess energy that flows back into the electric grid earns credits equal to the City’s estimated avoided fuel costs. Our current fuel cost is .01267 per kWh, but that varies.
Does the City of Georgetown offer rebates for newly installed Air Conditioning and heating systems in older homes?