Power companies have a plan to kill solar in West Virginia.
For over a decade, WV’s net metering policy has helped create local jobs, kept the lights on, and protected Mountaineers from unfair fees and rising utility bills. Now greedy power companies are pushing to eliminate these protections.
Will you join us in the fight to stop monopoly utilities from taking away more of our energy freedom?
Net metering benefits everyone.
Net metering enables households and businesses to generate their own electricity through solar, then feed their excess power back into the local electric grid. Current rules allow West Virginia consumers to be compensated for that surplus power at a fair market rate. In other words, when you make more than you use, you get a credit (equal in value) on your next month’s electric bill. It's a good way to help consumers save money, AND it enhances grid resilience.
Communities across our state have felt the positive impacts of net metering for over a decade:
-
The surplus power that gets fed back into the grid reduces strain and makes ALL electricity consumers less vulnerable to disruption by increasing the local energy mix.
-
With fair market net metering, solar users earn a credit on their bill based on how much energy they’ve generated.
-
The existing net metering rules have led to significant growth in the emerging energy sector in the Mountain State. They’ve driven innovation, supported local business growth, and created new blue collar jobs.
If power companies pull the plug on fair market net metering—interfering with our right to produce our own power—all West Virginians will suffer the consequences.
Utility companies want to rewrite the rules in their favor so that new customers can only net meter at a fraction of the current retail rate. This action would deny West Virginians the right to be fairly compensated for producing our own power. Pulling the plug on fair market net metering would also lead to undue stress on the power grid and economic stagnation in the emerging energy sector. The last thing the state of West Virginia needs is for monopoly utilities to take away more of our energy freedom.