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Article: Pepco Brings Net Metering to 2009 DOE Solar Decathlon.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- October 23, 2009
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Pepco is joining the Department of Energy as a Sustaining Partner for the 2009 Solar Decathlon, an international collegiate competition in which 20 teams of students compete to design, build, and operate energy-efficient solar-powered houses on the national Mall.
Pepco will install "smart meters" capable of providing net metering for each of the 20 homes in the solar village. This will be the first time in the fourth biennial Solar Decathlon that net metering will be the highest potential scoring category in the competition. Net metering enables a two-way power flow so that when the solar generation of electricity by the homes exceeds the energy needs of the ...