Note: Rates for Standard to and from Canada do not include charges for customs clearance. Rates for Standard to and from Mexico include routine customs clearance.
vs. Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager. Net metering is a utility resource usage and payment scheme in which a customer who generates their own power is compensated monetarily. Net metering originated with electric companies as a way to encourage consumers to invest in renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power.
Net purchase and sale is a different method of providing power to the electricity grid that does not offer the price symmetry of net metering, making this system a lot less profitable for home users of small renewable electricity systems. 2012 report on the cost of net metering in the State of California, commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), showed that those customers without distributed generation systems will pay $287 in additional costs to use and maintain the grid every year by 2020.