Grant information thank you for your interest in delaware electric cooperative s renewable resource program.
Delaware grants for solar panels.
Non residential non profit solar hot water geothermal grants.
This term tells us as at what time you will recover your.
These grants are only open to customers of delmarva power.
Delaware rps solar carve out.
We do it by providing access to high efficiency heating cooling ventilation and insulation.
Grant applications must use the green grant delaware online application system.
The cooperative is proud to offer grants for solar systems.
Interested in installing a solar energy system on your home or business.
Delaware s electric rates are tied for 12th place in the nation.
Delaware s solar carve out is 3 5 by 2027.
However your best savings will always be the energy you don t use.
Delaware s average cost of a solar panel installation ranges from 11 305 to 15 295.
Ratepayers receive 0 85 w of solar power installed up to 5kw and 0 25 w for any additional solar capacity.
If you design a home solar system to produce that much electricity you d need thirty 325 watt solar panels for a total system size of 9 8 kw.
Solar carve outs require a certain percentage of the renewable portfolio standards be met with solar energy.
According to the u s.
Only complete applications with all required attachments should be submitted to the green energy program team.
On a cost per watt w basis a solar panel installation in delaware ranges in price from 2 26 to 3 06.
Through our many energize delaware programs we help residents businesses farmers schools religious organizations nonprofits hospitals and local governments save money.
Delmarva power offers grants to offset the installed cost of photovoltaic solar water heating wind and geothermal renewable energy technologies.
The non residential and non profit solar hot water and geothermal program is jointly run by dnrec and the seu offering grants to qualified installations of solar hot water and geothermal systems in delaware based on system sizes.
The department of energy doe has one of the richest and most diverse histories in the federal government.
The 2020 grant application period will be open from monday january 6 to friday january 10 2020.
Delaware state electric rates.
Energy information administration the average home in delaware needs over 11 000 kwh per year and for the privilege of that energy you ll pay somewhere around 1 475 that s a ton of money.
Another calculation that potential solar buyers have to consider is the solar payback period.
The municipal green energy program pays customers of qualifying delaware municipal utilities a cash rebate for a portion of their solar installation costs.
Although only in existence since 1977 the department traces its lineage to the manhattan project effort to develop the atomic bomb during world war ii and to the various energy related programs that previously had been dispersed throughout various federal agencies.
