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By Craig Johnson

How Strong Net Metering Benefits You

All about the incentive system and technology that monetizes your home's solar energy output.

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With a home solar energy system, you become not just a private producer of your own electricity but a one-house power company too, thanks to net metering. You sell your excess electricity to the public utility. One additional piece of equipment in your system, a bidirectional meter, tracks how much energy you import from the grid as well as export ...
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