With so much natural beauty to protect in New Hampshire, it is no surprise that the Granite State has installed an impressive amount of solar energy systems. New Hampshire has grown the solar industry through strong incentive programs and low-income financing options.

The SREC program currently pays $31/mwh with no fixed term limits. This means the energy you supply to the grid is paid back as long as you have your panels.

The Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption in New Hampshire permits cities and towns to offer exemptions from local property taxes for solar panel systems. The goal of the exemption is to create a tax neutral policy within a municipality that neither increases an individual's property tax, nor decreases the municipality's property tax revenues. By implementing it as a tax neutral policy, homeowners do not have a disincentive of higher property taxes for installing a renewable energy system, and since there is no net reduction in municipal tax revenues, other taxpayers in a municipality are not affected.

Net Metering

NH Public Utilities Commission provides for Net Metering, which permits homeowners to receive credit for on-site electricity generation such as from a solar photovoltaic (PV) or wind turbine installation when the generation exceeds household consumption. This is accomplished by use of an electric meter that can run both forward and backward so that the homeowner is billed only for the net reading on the meter.