Hundreds of Connecticut rooftop solar projects still awaiting production meters, delaying incentives and REC reporting

More than a thousand Connecticut residential solar projects that went online in 2022–23 remain without production meters, and utilities and regulators at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority discussed the operational and customer impacts during a May 1 technical meeting. Eversource said roughly 5,700 systems in its territory initially went into service without a production meter because of supply‑chain constraints; Eversource reported that a little over half of those have since received meters. United Illuminating reported 5,670 systems initially installed without production meters and said about 1,306 remain to be corrected (about 23 percent of that population). Why it matters: without a production meter utilities cannot finalize incentive payments to third‑party owners and cannot fully report generation into the regional registry (NEPOOL GIS) to create and sell renewable energy…