The neighboring states of Alabama and Mississippi are headed down very different roads when it comes to rooftop solar panels.
, including rebates for low- and middle-income customers and incentives for schools that choose to install rooftop solar.charged to solar customers by the state’s largest utility, Alabama Power. That fee adds $27.05 every month to the bill of an Alabama Power customer with an average-sized rooftop solar array, offsetting the savings from the solar panels.
“Big picture, it’s just leaving Alabama in the dust,” Johnston said. “Mississippi’s implementing these provisions now. Georgia has already implemented provisions, and looking at more, to encourage rooftop solar distributed generation. When Alabama Power solar customers feed energy back onto the grid, they are only credited for the amount it would have cost the utility to generate that same amount, significantly lower than the retail electricity rates.
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