The NC Clear Power Know-how Middle (NCCETC) launched its Q3 2025 edition of “The 50 States of Photo voltaic.” The quarterly sequence supplies insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on distributed photo voltaic coverage, with a deal with web metering, distributed photo voltaic valuation, interconnection guidelines, group photo voltaic, residential mounted fees, residential demand and photo voltaic fees, monetary incentives and third-party possession.
The report finds that 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, took some sort of distributed photo voltaic coverage motion throughout Q3 2025, with the best variety of actions persevering with to deal with web metering insurance policies (57), residential mounted cost or minimal invoice will increase (43) and group photo voltaic insurance policies (40). A complete of 217 distributed photo voltaic coverage actions had been taken throughout Q3 2025, with probably the most actions taken in Connecticut, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Arizona and California.
Q3 2025 coverage motion on web metering, fee design and photo voltaic possession
The report identifies three traits in photo voltaic coverage exercise taken in Q3 2025: (1) utilities persevering with to transition to net-billing tariffs, (2) states and utilities pursuing supporting mechanisms for group photo voltaic, and (3) states responding to the lack of federal incentives.
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“After the federal authorities handed HR1 in July, states are revising packages and tips to maximise use of the prevailing funding and manufacturing credit,” stated Rebekah de la Mora, senior coverage analyst at NCCETC. “Regulators are revising interconnection guidelines to assist tasks hook up with the grid earlier than the federal deadline for working, implementing extensions and exceptions for tasks underneath incentive packages and contemplating program expansions to ‘make up’ for the lack of the credit.”
The report notes the highest 5 distributed photo voltaic coverage actions of Q3 2025:
- The Public Utilities Fee of Nevada adopting new demand fees for Nevada Energy and a brand new netting interval for Sierra Energy;
- PacifiCorp requesting approval for a web metering successor tariff in Washington;
- The West Virginia Public Service Fee approving web billing for Appalachian Energy and Wheeling Energy;
- The Puerto Rico Power Bureau starting an investigation into group photo voltaic; and
- Colorado Springs Utilities proposing unique charges for net-metering clients.
“States and utilities proceed grappling with the correct compensation constructions for distributed technology. In Q3 2025, a number of utilities proposed and obtained approval for brand spanking new web billing tariffs,” stated Brian Lips, senior undertaking supervisor at NCCETC. “Utilities’ netting billing tariff intervals sometimes vary from instantaneous netting to hourly netting, compared to the usual month-to-month interval for web metering.”
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