How we check Connecticut's plug-in solar rules

We track one thing: what the law of Connecticut says about plugging a solar device into an ordinary outlet. We are not lawyers, we do not sell equipment, and we are not affiliated with any utility or with the State of Connecticut.

Every legal value on this site is read from a primary source — for Connecticut, that is the text of Public Act 26-127 as published by the Connecticut General Assembly. Not a news report about the act, not a press release, and not another website's summary. Each value on the law page is stored with the source it came from and the sentence it was read from, and the date we last checked it is printed at the top of the page.

Two things about the Connecticut record specifically, because they affect how much you should trust it.

The first is that cga.ct.gov, the General Assembly's own site, was unreachable for about eight hours while this record was built — the whole ct.gov network, from two different networks, over both HTTP and FTP. We got the text from search.cga.state.ct.us, which is the General Assembly's other host and serves the identical PDF. No archive, cache or third-party mirror was used. The statute link on the law page still points at the canonical cga.ct.gov address, because that is where the act lives and where it will keep living; the host that was actually answering is recorded as a second source beside it.

The second is that the 1,200-watt cap is recorded as having no stated measurement basis, and that is a finding rather than a gap. The act says "maximum power output" and stops there. It never says whether the number is measured at the inverter's AC output or at the panels' DC nameplate rating, and the same kit can sit on either side of 1,200 watts depending on which you take. Several other states settle this with a phrase about output "to the receptacle outlet"; Connecticut has no such phrase. When we check a specific kit against Connecticut, a kit whose two figures straddle the limit gets the answer "unknown", with the reason — not a guess in either direction.

Where we could not establish something, the page shows a dash and a grey "not confirmed" badge. That is not an unfinished page. It is the honest state of what we know, and we would rather print it than print a plausible number.