Solar + battery installation in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador has a genuine net metering arrangement with a deadline nobody advertises. Newfoundland Power and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro both credit generation in kilowatt-hours at the rate for your own class of service, capped at the energy the utility supplied that month, with any surplus banking forward and settling once a year at a wholesale figure rather than at retail. Systems are limited to 100 kW and must be designed not to exceed the premises' annual energy needs. The part to check before spending anything: both tariffs close availability once the provincial aggregate net metering capacity of 5.0 MW has been met. Neither utility publishes the remaining headroom, and NL Hydro's public net metering page never mentions the cap at all, so you cannot learn from it that the programme can close. Ask your utility directly where the province stands. Where you live also decides whether this is worth doing, because Newfoundland Power's island residential energy charge is 15.587 cents per kWh while NL Hydro serves Labrador at 3.154 cents per kWh on the Labrador Interconnected system, low enough that a rooftop system does not pay back there whatever the net metering terms say.