Program Overview

The Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (RRES) Program is a statewide program that provides renewable energy tariffs to compensate residential solar owners for the power their systems produce and provide to the local electric grid. Launched in January 2022, the six-year program replaces the legacy net metering program, as well as the residential solar incentive program (RSIP). The RRES Program’s residential tariffs were established pursuant to Public Act 19-35, An Act Concerning A Green Economy and Environmental Protection, codified in § 16-244z of the General Statutes of Connecticut. The program is administered by Connecticut's regulated electric distribution companies, Eversource Energy and The United Illuminating Company (UI).

In February 2021, PURA issued a decision that established the RRES program to ensure the continued sustained and orderly development of the state’s solar industry while putting in place important ratepayer and consumer protections that ensure all ratepayers reap the benefits of renewable energy resources.

*NEW* Recent Changes (2024 only)

 
In the latest RRES annual program review, the Authority authorized several changes to the program, including:

• Updated Buy-All and Netting tariff rates for projects that enroll in the program in 2025; 
• Updated application fees to reflect administrative costs of the program; and 
• Expanded customer options for metering and wiring, including approving alternatives to trough-type connections, allowing continued use of non-bypass meter sockets, and directing the EDCs to take steps to permit the deployment of meter socket adapters for residential solar installations.

In addition, in a second decision in the 2023 annual program review, the Authority approved master-metered multifamily affordable housing to participate in the program, subject to tenant benefit sharing requirements.

Learn More About the Program

Frequently Asked Questions

Program Manual

Program Websites and Contact Information

For additional inquiries, please contact PURA's customer affairs team at PURA.information@ct.gov.

PURA Decisions

Program Year 4 Decision (2024): Docket No. 24-08-02, 10/16/2024

Master-Metered Affordable Housing Decision (2024): Docket No. 23-08-02, 07/10/24

Program Year 3 Decision (2023): Docket No. 23-08-02, 11/01/23

Application Process Working Group (APWG) Decision, Docket No. 22-08-02, 02/08/23

Program Year 2 Decision (2023): Docket No. 22-08-02, 11/02/22

Program Year 1 Decision (2022): Docket No. 21-08-02, 10/06/21

Program Authorization Decision: Docket No. 20-07-01, 02/10/21

The PURA Clean Energy Ombudsperson

The PURA Clean Energy Ombudsperson provides support to the RRES Program by mediating disputes and facilitating master-metered multifamily affordable housing RRES projects, including reviewing eligibility and tenant benefit sharing requirement compliance.

The ombudsperson acts as an independent mediator to resolve program disputes for three renewable energy programs – the Non-Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (NRES), Shared Clean Energy Facility (SCEF), and Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (RRES) Programs.

For information on how to contact the ombudsperson, please click here.

Background

The Authority authorized the creation of an independent ombudsperson in 2023, in Docket No. 23-08-03, Annual Non-Residential Renewable Energy Solutions Program Review – Year 3. The Authority subsequently held a solicitation for a consultant to serve as the ombudsperson and selected Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC (SEA) to serve as the ombudsperson for the three programs, effective April 1, 2024.