What will the end of net metering cost me?
That depends mainly on how much electricity you feed back and what your supplier pays or charges for it. Those who feed back a lot lose the most. Calculate it with your own annual statement.
With net metering, you offset electricity fed back against electricity from the grid, at the full rate including energy tax. From 2027, you only get your supplier's feed-in tariff for what you feed back, and sometimes pay feed-in costs. The difference between the two, over all the kWh you feed back, is roughly what the end of net metering costs you.
What it depends on
On how much of your solar power you use yourself, on your contract (fixed or dynamic, with or without feed-in costs) and on what you change: a battery, charging the car on solar power or shifting use to sunny hours. These changes can reinforce each other, but can also eat into each other.
How to calculate it
Enter the figures from your latest annual statement in the calculator. It first recalculates that year, with net metering, so you can check that it is right. Then it calculates the same home without net metering.
Calculate what the end of net metering costs you
An estimate, not personal advice. How the calculator works: How does this calculator work?
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