Consumers Energy is taking applications from customers who want to sell it solar power from their homes under the utility's Experimental Advanced Renewable Program (EARP).
EARP allows electric customers to sell the output of customer-owned solar generating systems to Consumers Energy for a fixed price during a 15-year contract.
The program resulted from a Michigan law. The total power purchase by Consumers is This Program is limited to 3,000 kilowatts (kW) of capacity, with 1,500 kW reserved for residential systems and 1,500 kW reserved for non-residential systems.
