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Texas is leading America’s clean energy transformation with record growth in wind, solar, battery storage, and hydrogen. Discover how Texas is helping power the future.
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Most net-metering tariffs include an annual true-up where excess generation is credited at avoided-cost rates rather than retail. A solar system sized for summer peak production can produce excess that gets settled at much-lower wholesale rates each year. Sizing to annual consumption — not summer peak — protects the economics.
Oversized systems frequently hit payback periods 2-4 years longer than the marketing brochure showed. The true-up math is in the tariff document, not the sales pitch.
Many electric and gas industry entities have quarterly FERC filing requirements (Form 1, EQR, Form 552) regardless of size. Missing a filing window typically requires a curative filing with explanation; repeated missed windows can produce show-cause orders.
Show-cause orders from FERC are time-consuming and visible to industry counterparties. Calendar discipline is the only reliable protection.
The ITC is a one-time credit against the qualifying project cost, taken in the year the project is placed in service. The PTC is a per-kWh credit earned over the project's first 10 years of operation. Solar projects historically defaulted to ITC; wind to PTC. Recent legislation lets developers choose — and the choice depends on capital structure, not project type.
The wrong choice can leave 10-30% of project value on the table over the credit period. The decision should be made at financial close, not at project inception.
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