Will Solar Panels Work When It’s Cloudy?
Net metering is a billing agreement between solar customers and their utility company. When your solar panels produce excess power, they feed energy back to the grid. The utility then compensates you for the excess grid supply with credits that are added to your electric bill. In a sense, your system’s excess production can earn you money. Those net metering credits can then be used to draw electricity from the grid when your panels aren’t producing enough energy to power your home, like when it’s cloudy or dark outside.
Similarly, during the spring and summer months when the sun is shining and your panels are producing more electricity than you need, that extra energy goes to the grid. Then in the winter when the days are shorter, you can draw on those energy credits to help offset some of your energy needs.