How to Sell Solar Energy Back to Grid: Comprehensive Guide (2025)
When your solar panels produce more electricity than your home or business uses at any moment, that energy
Without battery storage, this excess electricity flows back into the utility grid for other customers to use. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), this two-way relationship between your property and the electrical grid makes selling solar power possible. Here's how it works:
Homeowners can generate their own solar energy and sell any surplus power back to the grid. This guide explains solar energy and net metering. It covers the processes of solar power generation, as well as the requirements and benefits of selling energy.
When your solar panels produce more electricity than your home or business uses at any moment, that energy needs somewhere to go. Without battery storage, this excess electricity flows back into the utility grid for other customers to use.
Existing compressed air energy storage systems often use the released air as part of a natural gas power cycle to produce electricity. Solar power can be used to create new fuels that can be combusted (burned) or consumed to provide energy, effectively storing the solar energy in the chemical bonds.
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