Solar heats up in S.C. as business installations surge
Businesses and residents have collected more than $30 million in incentives from South Carolina’s utilities for launching solar projects since 2014.
That’s when the law went into effect allowing privately owned solar operations to sell electricity back to the state’s power grid. And some industry officials, businesses and utilities think it’s time for the state to expand incentives and access to solar power generation.
Act 236 outlined parameters for net metering, a system for collecting solar energy and selling it to electric companies at a specific, agreed-upon rate that is then credited against usage.
