Please call our Holyoke office at 854-2236 and ask to speak with Tad Huser, or email us at RenewableEnergy@hea.coop .  We start by calculating your maximum system size based on your average usage, as well as any potential circuit capacity constraints.  This will help your contractor get started on your system design.  Included in this initial sizing we alos provide a payback analysis and a “year-in-the-life” billing analysis to help members understand a net metered account.  For this service you will be billed a $50 charge. 

Prior to purchasing equipment, please submit the following documents for our engineering department to approve to avoid purchasing non-conforming equipment:

• Site plan
• Single line diagram
• Specifications for your generator(s), inverter(s), and manual AC disconnect switch*

* Interconnection Standard Section 2.5 requires the disconnect switch to be located at any and all points of the interconnection with HEA. 

Documentation we require members to review and, in some cases, return once completed and signed are as follows:

• Renewable Energy Application (sign and return)
• HEA Interconnection Agreement (sign and return)
• HEA Interconnection Tariff
• Connecting Renewable Generation Systems
• Renewable Energy Credit (REC) contract (optional)

Upon receiving signed Interconnection Agreement, Highline will reserve your capacity for 1-year.  If your system is not commissioned before that 1-year term, we will need to obtain a new agreement, and any capacity reserved is forfeit.

HEA Policies:

• Policy 6-1: Tariff Policy
• Policy 6-3: Interconnection of Distributed Generation Policy
• Policy 6-5: Net Metering

Highline members can schedule an optional energy audit to help ensure your investment in renewable energy project pays you back as quickly as possible.  A Highline Members Services representative will visit the member residence perform a basic energy audit resulting in potential recommendations for energy efficiency improvements. Please allow 10 days for appointment.

Once your system design and plans have been approved, we receive copies of your applicable permits, and your application and interconnection agreements have been signed, Highline will schedule a net meter installation at your point of interconnection.  At this point you will be billed a $350 charge.  Member does not need to be present for the meter install, please allow 10 days for net meter installation.

Member must schedule Final System Commissioning with HEA after the final state electrical inspection is complete and the documentation is conveyed to HEA. There must be no generation on the HEA system until final commissioning is complete. Please allow 10 days for the commissioning appointment.