How GPS Generation
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Generate your own power through GPS Generation Partners

Homes and businesses that participate in Green Power Switch® (GPS) are doing something good for the environment. North Georgia EMC, in partnership with TVA, offers members an additional opportunity to help protect the environment—a program called Green Power Switch Generation Partners.

GPS Generation Partners provides technical support and incentives for the installation of renewable generation systems of up to 200 kilowatts. The program makes more green power available for GPS subscribers, and it creates a market for green power generation by homeowners and businesses.

Here’s how the program works:

  • Customers should contact NGEMC to apply for participation in the program prior to purchasing a renewable generation system.
  • A renewable generation system is installed by a residential, commercial, or industrial power customer served by a participating power company of TVA power. Eligible resources include solar, wind, low impact hydro, and biomass.
  • TVA will purchase all of the green energy output at a rate of 12 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar and 3 cents per kilowatt-hour for other renewable generation as a premium payment above the retail rate and any fuel cost adjustments. For example, if you pay your power company 10 cents per kWh for the electricity you use to your power your home each month, then TVA will pay you 22 cents (10 cents plus a 12 cent guaranteed premium) per kWh for 100% of the green energy generated from your solar photovoltaic system. Moreover, a 2 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) installation in the Valley averages 200 kWh per month or roughly $44 per month Generation Credit: 200kWh X $0.22/kWh (average retail rate of $0.10 + solar premium $0.12) = $44.
  • All new Generation Partners participants will receive a $1,000 incentive to help offset start-up costs.
  • The participating power company will provide monthly statements showing the energy used and any credit due. Power bills will be reconciled either monthly or annually, at the discretion of the participating power company. Energy consumed at the home or business, whether it is generated at the site or delivered over the local power distribution system, is billed at the standard rate.
  • The customer is guaranteed payments for 10 years from the start of the agreement with the local power company.

Customers should contact NGEMC to apply for participation in the program prior to purchasing a renewable generation system.

You can learn more about Green Power Switch Generation Partners online or by calling NGEMC and asking for Energy Services.