Delaware solar leads

Sun at Wilmington

PVWatts, the calculator NREL created and the National Laboratory of the Rockies now runs, estimates the solar radiation a panel receives from typical-year weather. For Wilmington, Delaware’s largest city in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimates, it reports 4.76 kWh per square meter per day (checked October 9, 2026).

How the figure was produced: the stock PVWatts version 8 array, open-rack and fixed, aimed south at 20 degrees of tilt, at Wilmington’s Census gazetteer point, with the National Solar Radiation Database typical year as input. It is one reference value for comparing states; Dover, the beach towns or a different roof would each give their own.

Net energy metering in Delaware

Delaware writes its net metering terms into the utility restructuring law. Section 1014 of Title 26 of the Delaware Code (checked October 9, 2026) directs the Public Service Commission, the municipal electric companies and the electric cooperative to adopt net energy metering rules for customers who own, lease or contract for a system fueled by solar, wind, hydro, a fuel cell or anaerobic digester gas, located on their premises and connected to the grid. Subsection (d)(1) caps systems at 25 kW for residential customers, 150 kW for farms on a residential tariff (with case-by-case waivers above that) and up to 2 MW per meter for nonresidential customers of the commission-regulated utility.

Subsection (e)(1) sets the credit. Production beyond the home’s use in a billing period becomes an Excess kWh Credit that carries to later monthly bills, and credits left at the end of an annualized billing period carry over to the next one. Since January 1, 2024, for commission-regulated utilities, each monthly credit is valued at the volumetric parts of the supply and distribution charges on the customer’s rate schedule, leaving out the societal benefits program charges, and it cannot reduce fixed monthly customer charges. The customer-generator keeps the renewable energy credits unless it signs them away.

Two other provisions matter to installers. Net metering must run on a single bidirectional meter, and a residential customer pays no more than $200 toward any new or modified meter (subsection (e)(6)). Net-metered customers must be billed at the same rates and charges as other customers, with no stand-by fees (subsection (e)(4)).

Delaware solar rebates and the LMI pilot

The DNREC Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy runs the Green Energy Program, which began in 1999 and has funded more than 6,000 renewable energy projects in the state (checked October 9, 2026). Its rebates cover photovoltaic, solar water heating, geothermal and wind systems for customers of the utility whose customers pay into the fund through a monthly public benefits charge. Applicants complete an energy audit, choose an approved contractor and sign their solar renewable energy credits over to the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility. As of August 10, 2026, the program launched a Solar + Storage Pilot for batteries paired with solar. DNREC also notes that some approved grants wait in a payment queue until funds are available.

Customers of the electric cooperative and the municipal utilities are pointed to rebate programs those utilities run themselves. Separately, DNREC’s Low- to Moderate-Income Solar Pilot reaches homes in every utility territory: low-income households apply through the Weatherization Assistance Program for systems up to 4.0 kW, and moderate-income households apply through an approved contractor for systems up to 6.0 kW (checked October 9, 2026).

Delaware counties by owner-occupied detached homes

Delaware has three counties, so all of them are listed, ranked by owner-occupied single-family detached homes, from the ACS 5-year 2020-2024 county table B25032. The table describes housing and says nothing about where leads come from.

New Castle County, in the north, has about half of the state’s owner-occupied detached homes (112,639 of 223,705 in the 2020-2024 ACS) but the lowest detached share of the three at 72.8%. Kent County, around Dover, has the highest at 82.6%.

What Delaware solar buyers filter on

Delaware solar buyers generally screen on a few lead fields. Each one connects to something above:

• Homeowner status: owners sign solar contracts and rebate applications; owner-occupied detached homes are counted above.
• Project type: the general kind of solar project requested; the exact options are set when the solar form is final.
• Timeframe: whether the homeowner is ready to proceed or still researching.
• ZIP code: the ZIP codes an installer serves, which in Delaware also decides the utility territory.

The filters for Delaware solar leads are agreed with each buyer during onboarding. Exclusive or shared routing for solar leads is agreed with each buyer during onboarding. The sample solar lead lists the fields.

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