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Pepco Solar Panel Customers Save Energy, Waste Paper

Solar panel users can only get credit if they are enrolled in paper billing with Pepco.

By Patch Local Editor Whitney Teal

Pepco customers with solar panels that manage to generate more energy than the home consumes are eligible for a credit from the utility company. The only drawback? They have to be enrolled in paper billing to receive it, Washington City Paper reports.

"That is a manual process at this point, so it does have to be a paper bill. Our online system does not have the capability right now to deal with customers who are generating more than they’re using," Pepco spokesman Marcus Beal told the newspaper. 

Read more at Washington City Paper's website. 


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