How does net metering “store” electricity?
5) Net metering allows you to use the electric grid, and the company that otherwise supplies you with electricity, as if it were a big, free battery. There will be times when your electricity needs are less than the amount of electricity your generating system is providing at the moment. Your generating system puts the excess electricity you do not need back into the electric grid to be used by others and allows you to take this same amount of electricity back out of the electric grid. Net metering permits you to “bank” your excess electricity and then withdraw it from the grid free for your use later that day, or even months later. When you withdraw your “banked” electricity, you save not having to buy this amount of electricity from your electric service provider. For example, on a sunny summer day when no one is home, a photovoltaic (solar) generating system might produce more electricity than needed at the time. Conversely, in the evening, when everyone is home, electricity needs w
