Per a story by Lana Kunz in the Evansville Courier Press, a group called Network for New Energy Solutions reports that Indiana is behind the times on net metering – the ability to generate electricity from alternate sources and “feed the grid.”

Currently Indiana’s regulations only require power companies to buy energy from residential and K-12 schools, even though some facilities “sometimes go above and beyond” what is required, Cotton said.
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Current state law limits not only the type of consumer that can sell back energy, but how much they can sell, the size of the system generating the alternative energy, the types of energy utilities are required to buy, pays only a wholesale rate back to the consumer and does not require all power companies to net meter.

Something to watch, I guess. I don’t know how substantial power generation from alternate sources going back into the grid could become. Still, the ability to sell back excess power would probably be an incentive for people to start using alternate energy sources. And, ultimately, a more flexible power grid with “a thousand points of light” (to borrow a phrase) would probably be a good thing.