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Note: Lakeland has begun searching for private investment partnerships in order to expand the program. Lakeland Electric, a municipal utility in Florida, is the nation's first utility to offer solar-heated domestic hot water on a "pay-for-energy" basis. The utility owns and maintains the solar water heaters they install on participating customers' homes and bills them only for hot water delivered to the faucet. The utility installs revenue-grade energy meters to measure the thermal output of the solar water heating systems. These meters internally convert the thermal energy (Btus) to an electricity equivalent (kWh) for billing purposes. Whereas hundreds of utilities across the U.S. offer their customers a green power option for a premium, the Lakeland program offers a customer-sited solar energy option that reduces the program participant's overall energy costs. The program serves as an incentive to residential customers to utilize solar energy by: eliminating up-front equipment expenditures and maintenance costs; locking in a portion of the customer's energy costs at ~ 8¢/kWh (the solar energy rate) as compared to Lakeland's current electric rate of ~ 13¢/kWh; that is, a portion of their energy costs are exempt from fuel charge increases; reducing standby losses when the water heater is not in use (typically ~ 15% of the energy consumption of a conventional hot water heater), thereby further reducing energy costs; reducing the environ ...
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Note: Lakeland has begun searching for private investment partnerships in order to expand the program. Lakeland Electric, a municipal utility in Florida, is the nation's first utility to offer solar-heated domestic hot water on a "pay-for-energy" basis. The utility owns and maintains the solar water heaters they install on participating customers' homes and bills them only for hot water delivered to the faucet. The utility installs revenue-grade energy meters to measure the thermal output of the solar water heating systems. These meters internally convert the thermal energy (Btus) to an electricity equivalent (kWh) for billing purposes. Whereas hundreds of utilities across the U.S. offer their customers a green power option for a premium, the Lakeland program offers a customer-sited solar energy option that reduces the program participant's overall energy costs. The program serves as an incentive to residential customers to utilize solar energy by: eliminating up-front equipment expenditures and maintenance costs; locking in a portion of the customer's energy costs at ~ 8¢/kWh (the solar energy rate) as compared to Lakeland's current electric rate of ~ 13¢/kWh; that is, a portion of their energy costs are exempt from fuel charge increases; reducing standby losses when the water heater is not in use (typically ~ 15% of the energy consumption of a conventional hot water heater), thereby further reducing energy costs; reducing the environ ...