Administrators show enrollment numbers and example project economics for Construct 5

Program administrators presented enrollment statistics and an illustrative project to show how Construct 5 payments are structured and why they view retention risk as low.

United Illuminating's Logan Terakani said the program received 110 residential applications to date, with 63 qualifying for standard incentives and 47 for grid‑edge incentives, representing more than 1.7 megawatts of installed storage capacity and roughly 2.7 megawatt‑hours of energy capacity in homes. He said average enrollment incentive payments were about $643 for residential standard customers and about $3,795 for grid‑edge customers, while average system sizes ranged from 21 to 29 kWh.

Terakani used a hypothetical 20 kW/30 kWh home system costing about $34,000 to illustrate that a one‑time enrollment payment (for example, $900 standard or $3,900 grid edge in his example) is small compared with the estimated value of performance incentives over the 10‑year commitment (~$20,000). “Said differently, the performance incentive is worth roughly five times the value of the grid‑edge enrollment incentive,” he said.

Program administrators said these figures support the view that customers commit to the program for long‑term performance payments rather than as a one‑time enrollment payout; that dynamic informed their recommendation against a universal enrollment payment clawback.