U.S. Virgin Islands - Net Energy Billing (NEB) Program
Administered by US Virgin Islands Energy Office (VIEO)
The U.S. Virgin Islands Net Energy Billing Program lets you install solar, battery storage, or wind systems on your home and get compensated for energy you send back to the grid at a balanced rate designed to be fair to both you and the utility. To apply, use the NEB Permitting Portal and gather required documents; the Virgin Islands Energy Office provides a Solar Savings Calculator to help you understand your financial benefits over time.
The NEB program is a grid-connected distributed energy resource incentive for residential and commercial customers, supporting solar, battery storage, and wind installations across all sector types. Projects must follow VIWAPA Interconnection Procedures and require an Interconnection Study Agreement and Interconnection Agreement; applicants submit through the online NEB Permitting Portal with complete required documentation.
The NEB program replaces the prior Net Energy Metering program with a performance-based rate structure that balances consumer incentives against VIWAPA's cost recovery for fixed grid assets. It serves residential, commercial, industrial, nonprofit, institutional, and government customers (including schools and agricultural operations) installing distributed energy resources. Applicants access the permitting portal, submit interconnection agreements, and can use the Excel-based Solar Savings Calculator (developed jointly with USDOE) to demonstrate long-term project economics under the NEB rate structure.
Program details
- Program ID
- 5495
- Last updated
- 1/2/2026
Eligibility
- Sectors
- commercial industrial local government nonprofit residential schools state government agricultural institutional
- Technologies
- solar photovoltaics
Program summary
The primary goal of the NEB program is to provide access to the energy-saving benefits of Distributed Energy Resources to grid-connected customers, while ensuring VIWAPA maintains cost recovery for its fixed assets across the grid. While the original NEM program provided an opportunity to establish a solar market in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the rate structure of the program provided incentives that were ultimately deemed overly generous to the consumer. As an alternative, the new NEB program was developed as a balanced compromise between the Utility and individuals who are interested in installing Distributed Energy Resources (such as solar, battery storage, and wind) on their homes or places of business.
In order to apply check the NEB Permitting Portal.
USVI SOLAR SAVINGS CALCULATOR
To help the Virgin Islands community better understand the economic benefits of the Net Energy Billing Program, the VIEO and USDOE partnered together to develop an Excel-Based Solar Savings Calculator. The goal of the Solar Savings Calculator is to empower consumers by quantitatively demonstrating the near and long term benefits of renewable energy investments under the NEB rate structure. Download calculator below:
Contact & resources
- Contact email
- energy@eo.vi.gov
- Additional resources
Please verify current program details with the administering agency before making any financial decisions.
