Connecticut’s rebate program for home and business owners who purchase solar systems was so popular that the funds backing it are all used up only six months into the two-year funding period.

Until now, Connecticut’s solar rebate program was one of the better run and most generous in the United States. Since 2005, more than $85 million has been doled out for 815 residential solar projects and 127 business and government projects. Similar problems are popping up elsewhere, too. In Maryland, for instance state officials had to put a freeze on their solar energy grant program and close the waiting list.

One might argue that the size of state-level solar incentives funds pale in comparison to the actual demand for solar installs. So, while the programs are successful strictly in terms of their popularity, they are hindered by the fact that once funding runs out, people stop installing new PV systems.

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