Alabama power charges a 5 per kilowatt fee based on the capacity of the home system on people who use solar panels or other means to generate part of their own electricity.
Monthly fee solar panels.
On average rooftop solar arrays are around 5 kilowatts in size.
Subscribing to solar allows customers to go solar without the higher upfront costs of purchasing a solar panel system.
While that doesn t sound like a lot of money.
The psc also approved alabama power s request to increase the fee from 5 per kilowatt per month to 5 41 per kilowatt per month.
But then she found out about a monthly 5 per kilowatt solar fee from the state s largest utility alabama power.
The utility has been charging a 5 per kilowatt monthly fee.
The average solar panel setup for a home costs about 10 000 according to the.
Evergy officials say the demand charge is equitable because non solar customers in the company s.
Our subscriptions are priced regionally to reduce the average utility bill by more than the subscription s monthly payment meaning you can start saving immediately.
Demand fees can sometimes run to nearly 100 per month and wipe out most of solar system s savings.
That s 20 a month thorne says.