Co-op Solar is a community solar program that makes it easy for members to use solar energy without the cost or hassle of rooftop solar. 

When you participate in Co-op Solar, you purchase a block of solar power. Our wholesale power provider owns and maintains the solar arrays, so there’s no equipment to purchase or maintain and nothing to install. Energy purchased through the Co-op Solar program costs $0.42 per block per month in addition to the cooperative’s standard rates and charges. Each block is estimated to produce an average of 43 kilowatt-hours per month. 

A participating member may select up to 100 percent of their expected electric usage, not to exceed 83 blocks per member. The additional charge for participating in the Co-op Solar program will appear as a line item on your regular monthly billing statement. The program is open to residential members only.

In addition to our community solar program, we offer the EnviroWatts Green Power rate, which provides residential members with an option to support alternative energy by paying $0.015 cents more per kilowatt-hour in addition to our standard rate. The premium charged for EnviroWatts helps fund the promotion of renewable sources such as landfill gas and wind.

Members with distributed generation resources can sign up for net metering. If these resources produce excess energy, it is added to a bank of kilowatt-hours for the account; the bank can be used in future billing periods to offset the energy that would have to be otherwise purchased. Net metering applies only to avoided power purchases from and transmission through the bulk power system. Energy delivery charges are still applicable for all energy delivered to the service location.

Learn more about Boone REMC’s power resources and renewable options at bremc.com/environment.