ES Solar currently has a 98% smart, utility-controlled battery attachment rate on new solar sales as part of the Wattsmart Program. As the first Utah contractor to deploy the new business model, ES Solar has followed this expansion with Wattsmart customer enrollments in Idaho underway, supported by ES Solar’s new sales office in Idaho Falls. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission approved the Wattsmart program in April 2022, making Idaho the second state to embrace Wattsmart. Through sonnen batteries installed by ES Solar, the companies are building likely the largest network of utility-dispatched smart residential batteries in the United States - also known as a virtual power plant. In recent years, Rocky Mountain Power has gradually ended its solar net-metering subsidy to shift focus toward replacing solar alone with solar + energy storage with the Wattsmart Battery Program. Through this forward thinking approach, we hope to elevate our beloved solar industry, ‘all boats will rise.’”Īs it moves beyond its proof-of-concept phase, ES Solar is experiencing exponential growth with over 6 MWh of monthly sonnen energy storage sales in Utah and Idaho, attributed to the Wattsmart program. As we exceed our goals in Utah and expand into new markets, we’re excited to continue our work with sonnen and Rocky Mountain Power. This is now possible with our value added distributor model and replicable sales and marketing strategy. ![]() “Our team emphasizes the need for more than just rooftop solar to drive the clean energy transition and we want to do more than lead this transition, we want to empower other contractors to follow in our footsteps. “We’re honored to expand our relationship with sonnen by rapidly increasing the implementation of smart batteries within the Wattsmart program.” said Nic Evans, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at ES Solar. ES Solar is expected to bring up to 35 MWh of grid-interactive battery capacity online in 2022 via the Wattsmart program. June–September your solar power is valued at 5.969¢ kWh and October–May your solar power is valued at 5.639¢ per kWh.Battery maker sonnen has partnered with ES Solar to expand utility Rocky Mountain Power’s Wattsmart Battery Program across Utah and Idaho. These credit rates as they’re called fall on a schedule of June–September and October–May. This new program value’s your panel’s power differently depending on the time of year. That means that anyone that wants to add new solar to their home will be subject to these new policies.Ĭustomers new to solar will fall under Utah schedule 137 – Net Billing Program. The net metering laws here in Utah have changed recently within the last few months. Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) is the electricity provider for most of Utah and they get to set the rates. In reality, the value of the electricity produced by your panels is determined by the power company. True net metering means that the power your panels produce is valued the same as the electricity produced by power company. Ideally the power company would value all electricity equally. But when you use more power than you produce (like at night, when it’s cloudy, etc.) the power company sends you the power you need to keep your lights on so to speak. What that means for you is that during the day when your solar panels produce excess energy it gets used by your power company. One of the questions we hear most often is, “How does net metering work here in Utah?” Well the basic definition of net metering is this, “a system in which solar panels or other renewable energy generators are connected to a public-utility power grid and surplus power is transferred onto the grid, allowing customers to offset the cost of power drawn from the utility.”
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