Connecticut
Net metering in Connecticut, provider by provider.
Every provider in the state, and every figure below read from the published tariff or interconnection document rather than a comparison site. Some credit you the full retail rate for the power you send back. Most do not, and that difference is the whole reason this page exists.
Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41732 kilowatt hours. A 695 kilowatt hour month against 889 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 194 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $169.02 to $0.00 at 24.32 cents per kilowatt hour.
Connecticut average household use, 695 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 24.32¢ per kWh. Your utility still bills a fixed monthly customer charge that no system offsets, so this is the energy part of the bill, which is the part that goes away.
Solar buyback rates in Connecticut, utility by utility
New customers choose between a Netting Tariff, which credits net excess at the retail rate but charges $0.0402 on every kWh generated for 2026 applications, and a Buy-All Tariff that sells all production at $0.3289 a kWh, fixed for twenty years. The choice cannot be changed once made.
Connecticut net metering rules
Two tariffs, one choice, twenty years.
- Who it binds
- Eversource and The United Illuminating Company, the state’s two regulated electric distribution companies.
- What happens to a surplus
- Under Netting, credits carry from month to month and cannot be cashed out until the account closes. Under Buy-All there is nothing to roll over, because everything is sold.
- How big a system you may build
- Up to 25 kW AC per home, and no more than about your annual use: the utilities check any consecutive 12 months in the past five years, allow 5%, and add set allowances for a planned electric vehicle or heat pump.
PURA Residential Renewable Energy Solutions program — checked 2026-10-02
What actually happens after you pick
Most sites in this business hand your number to a sales team and disappear. We do the preparation first, so the company that turns up already knows your situation.
You see your real terms
Your provider page shows what that specific utility credits you, when it trues up, and where the catch is. Sourced and dated, not a sales page.
You choose the company
Companies serving your territory in Connecticut, with the reviews, years trading and BBB grade we found for each. You pick. Not a call center, not an auction.
We set the whole thing up
We call you, go through your bill and your last twelve months of use, work out what your utility owes you, and get the program paperwork in order.
They arrive prepared
The company you chose turns up to a job that is already understood, with your figures in hand. No cold pitch on your doorstep.
Solar installers in Connecticut
Every company we list for at least one Connecticut utility. Each profile shows the utilities it covers and what each one pays for the power you export.
Net metering in Connecticut: the questions people ask
- Does Connecticut have net metering?
- New customers choose between a Netting Tariff, which credits net excess at the retail rate but charges $0.0402 on every kWh generated for 2026 applications, and a Buy-All Tariff that sells all production at $0.3289 a kWh, fixed for twenty years. The choice cannot be changed once made.
- What is the solar buyback rate in Connecticut?
- It is set utility by utility, not by the state. How the 2 providers we list in Connecticut credit the power you export: 2 at the retail rate, with a condition. Each one’s own page gives its figure and the date we read it.
- Is solar worth it in Connecticut in 2026?
- It depends mostly on what your utility pays for the power you export, because the 30% federal credit ended for systems completed after 31 December 2025. Connecticut homes use about 695 kWh a month at an average of 24.32 cents per kWh, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Where exports are credited at the full retail rate, each kilowatt hour your panels send back is worth about that much; where they are credited below retail, size the system to what you use while the sun is up. Check your own utility on this page before you get a quote for solar panels.
- Is there a solar tax credit in Connecticut in 2026?
- Not a federal one. The 30% federal credit, IRC Section 25D, ended for systems completed after 31 December 2025, and a deposit paid in 2025 does not preserve it. Anyone still quoting it is working from an old script. Any incentive left in Connecticut comes from the state or your utility, and what your utility pays for exported power is now most of the financial case.
- Which providers does the Connecticut rule cover?
- Eversource and The United Illuminating Company, the state’s two regulated electric distribution companies.
- What happens to credits you do not use in Connecticut?
- Under Netting, credits carry from month to month and cannot be cashed out until the account closes. Under Buy-All there is nothing to roll over, because everything is sold.
- How big a solar system can you install in Connecticut?
- Up to 25 kW AC per home, and no more than about your annual use: the utilities check any consecutive 12 months in the past five years, allow 5%, and add set allowances for a planned electric vehicle or heat pump.
- Which electricity providers does this cover in Connecticut?
- We have read the published terms of 2 providers in Connecticut: Eversource, The United Illuminating Company. Each has its own page with the figures taken from its own tariff or from the state’s own order.
Source: PURA Residential Renewable Energy Solutions program, checked 2026-10-02.
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