Xcel Energy Community Solar Program

Solar rewards is your opportunity to have solar for your home or business.

Xcel energy community solar program. The xcel report says energy from a solar garden costs them between 110 to 125 per megawatt hour while a larger utility scale solar project costs about 40 for the same power. A programmable thermostat can help you save big on energy costs adjusting the temperature when you re at work at play or asleep. The future of the state s community solar program is in question even as utilities accelerate the adoption of renewable energy and take advantage of cheaper solar panels. The state s community solar program likely still faces political pressure from xcel energy which has lobbied at the state legislature annually to either reduce or kill it.

For those who can t install solar its solar rewards community program allows customers to invest in community solar garden projects within the xcel energy system which generates local solar energy for participating customers. It s an incentivized program so monthly payments are made to the owner of the solar system in exchange for renewable energy credits recs for the energy produced by the solar system. Break ground not the law always call 811 before digging in your yard to avoid hitting buried gas or electric lines. Xcel energy says.

Through the program garden operators own and interconnect a garden to the xcel energy electric grid then sell or lease solar subscriptions to xcel energy customers. Our solar rewards community allows xcel energy customers to support solar energy without installing their own solar system. Programs rebates xcel energy. Solar rewards community developer resources.

We offer a number of program and rebate options to our residential and business customers and even offer a rebate finder tool. Solar rewards you can go green with a bonus. 4 2017 xcel energy s solar rewards community program now has 40 active community solar gardens delivering more than 100 megawatts of clean renewable energy to customers making this the largest community solar garden program in the country. At the same time the utility often boasts in regulatory filings and press releases that minnesota has the leading program in the country.