Through the roof – As residential solar surges, the net-metering debate heats up

ur new electricity meter doesn’t have dials. It’s digital. So it didn’t "spin" backward soon after having a solar array installed on our south-facing garage roof in April 2015. I’d looked forward to that first indication that our 10 panels were producing more power than our house in Missoula, Montana, consumed. Instead, the "net meter" displays arrows pointing left and reads "Received" when the grid is taking on excess power. The display points right and reads "Delivered" when pulling power from the grid.

Still, seeing for the first time the equivalent of a backward spin delighted me considering the months I’d spent weighing whether it made economic sense to go solar.

Did it make sense?

Matthew Frank

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