NH SRECs have never been particularly lucrative. The utilities have a lot of influence in the Public Utilities Commission and generally whatever legislation is passed by the state to encourage solar, the utilities manage to dilute it. I got a note from my SREC broker that the utilities now can use SRECs generated by PV systems not enrolled as SREC generators to apply to the utilities limited SREC obligations. The utilities also have successfully argued with the PUC in the past that there is not enough PV generation to support a high PV SREC market so the PUC sets a very low PV requirement. The net result is that there is a very small demand for SRECs in the NH market and the majority of them come for free from small installations that haven't bothered with enrolling their systems. The enrollment process in NH is not simple and requires multiple steps, given the low SRECs value there isn't a lot of incentive to enroll systems so few folks enroll.
Every state is different and some states like Mass have very lucrative SREC markets (for now), but a major caveat to SRECs is I sure wouldn't plan on them in the long term to part of the payback for PV. For us folks who paid cash up front I expect its not an issue but for those with long term lease type contracts, make sure that they are not depending on SRECs in the mix.
The utilities are also trying to go after Net metering in NH but to date they haven't succeeded. They do appear to have support to phase it out which I can support as the original intent was to get early adopters like me to "prime the pump" of PV installs so that there would be development of viable PV market.
Every state is different and some states like Mass have very lucrative SREC markets (for now), but a major caveat to SRECs is I sure wouldn't plan on them in the long term to part of the payback for PV. For us folks who paid cash up front I expect its not an issue but for those with long term lease type contracts, make sure that they are not depending on SRECs in the mix.
The utilities are also trying to go after Net metering in NH but to date they haven't succeeded. They do appear to have support to phase it out which I can support as the original intent was to get early adopters like me to "prime the pump" of PV installs so that there would be development of viable PV market.
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