Connecticut solar export compensation
What Connecticut pays for exported rooftop solar power, with the source and the date each figure was checked.
Record verified 2026-09-16 · 16 of 17 fields sourced
What does your utility pay?
No single rate — formula based
RRES Netting: currently applicable retail rate inclusive of Standard Service supply charges; 2026 REC rate $0.000/kWh; 2026 Solar Energy Adjustment $0.0402/kWh. Buy-All 2026 rate: $0.3289/kWh.
Eversource (CT) · Connecticut
Residential RRES projects are up to 25 kW AC and receive a 20-year tariff commitment; legacy net metering is closed to new enrollment.
Source: eversource.com
Full Eversource (CT) detail →For new residential projects, Connecticut's Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (RRES) program replaced traditional residential net metering beginning January 1, 2022. A customer chooses Buy-All or Netting; under Netting, monthly net excess generation receives on-bill credits at the customer's currently applicable retail rate including Standard Service supply, while REC compensation and any production charge are set through PURA's annual process. Legacy residential net-metered systems and qualifying pre-2022 interconnection applications retain grandfathered treatment.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (RRES): customer selects a 20-year Buy-All tariff or a 20-year Netting tariff. Netting nets production against consumption and credits exported monthly net excess generation on the bill; Buy-All pays a fixed total incentive for all production. |
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| Export rate | Netting export rate is a formula, not a single statewide dollar figure: the customer's currently applicable retail rate inclusive of Standard Service energy supply charges. For 2026 Netting, the REC rate is $0.000/kWh for both Eversource and UI; a $0.0402/kWh Solar Energy Adjustment applies to 2026 Netting production. |
| Rate effective | RRES Netting formula applies to projects with the applicable program-year application; the current manual is Version 2026.1 effective January 1, 2026, and the 2026 values apply to projects applying January 1 through December 31, 2026. |
| Credit rollover | Monthly excess monetary on-bill credits carry forward from month to month and may offset customer, supply, and delivery charges. |
| Credit expiration | Credits are not given a routine calendar expiration in the cited RRES manual; accrued credits may be cashed out when the customer closes the EDC account. The 20-year tariff term is separate from monthly credit carry-forward. |
| Annual true-up | No annual true-up date is specified for current RRES Netting. Customers may request a monetary on-bill credit cash-out no more than once annually, with eligibility beginning on the one-year anniversary of Approval to Operate/Approval to Interconnect; account-closing cash-out is also provided for accrued credits. |
| Residential system cap | 25 kW AC maximum inverter nameplate capacity for an RRES Qualified Project; total qualified systems at a one-to-four-family premise may not exceed 25 kW AC, and systems must also be sized to the applicable load rules. |
| Commercial system cap | RRES is a residential tariff and does not establish a commercial-system cap. Commercial projects are outside this residential program and use separate non-residential procurement/tariff and interconnection rules; no single statewide commercial export cap is stated in the cited RRES materials. |
| Aggregate program cap | No single statewide aggregate cap for current residential RRES enrollment is stated in the cited current manual. The statute separately sets annual procurement ceilings for the broader tariff/procurement categories: up to 10 MW/year for the §16-244z(a)(2)(A) category, 100 MW/year for (B), and 50 MW/year for (C) shared clean energy facilities; these are not a 25 kW residential-system cap. |
| Program status | open for 2026 RRES applications: the current manual publishes 2026 incentive values and the Eversource interconnection page provides an active application process. |
| Regulator | Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA); the program is administered by Eversource Energy and The United Illuminating Company (UI). |
| Docket | PURA Docket No. 20-07-01 is the RRES Program Authorization Decision (February 10, 2021); annual program/rate reviews include Docket No. 22-08-02 and later annual dockets. Traditional residential net metering is closed to new enrollment after the transition to RRES. |
| Governing rule | Conn. Gen. Stat. §16-244z, implemented for RRES through Public Act 19-35 and PURA's Docket No. 20-07-01 decision; the program manual also identifies the Connecticut Class I RPS eligibility requirement. |
| Grandfathering | Residential systems operational under legacy net metering, and systems whose interconnection application was submitted to Eversource or UI before January 1, 2022, are grandfathered under the former net-metering program; current net-metering customers remain on that rate until the system is removed. |
| Interconnection application | The system installer or authorized agent applies for RRES and interconnection through the EDC process/portal with the required documents and fees. Program eligibility is reviewed concurrently with interconnection; the customer and system owner review and sign the tariff terms, and Eversource directs applicants to its PowerClerk online application. |
| Interconnection timeline | For RRES, conditional approval is generally 2–5 weeks after submission and fee payment; the cited PURA FAQ says most interconnections receive Permission to Operate 60–90 days after application, subject to completeness, weather, construction, and municipal inspection. Eversource's approved 0–25 kW inverter-based interconnection process lists 15 business days for its review step. |
| Pending change | Not yet verified |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| Eversource Energy (Connecticut) | RRES Netting: currently applicable retail rate inclusive of Standard Service supply charges; 2026 REC rate $0.000/kWh; 2026 Solar Energy Adjustment $0.0402/kWh. Buy-All 2026 rate: $0.3289/kWh. 2026 applications / manual effective 2026-01-01 Residential RRES projects are up to 25 kW AC and receive a 20-year tariff commitment; legacy net metering is closed to new enrollment. |
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| The United Illuminating Company (UI) | RRES Netting: currently applicable retail rate inclusive of Standard Service supply charges; 2026 REC rate $0.000/kWh; 2026 Solar Energy Adjustment $0.0402/kWh. Buy-All 2026 rate: $0.3289/kWh. 2026 applications / manual effective 2026-01-01 Residential RRES projects are up to 25 kW AC and receive a 20-year tariff commitment; legacy net metering is closed to new enrollment. |
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- Alabama — Rate PAE 2026 payment options are time-of-day: 5.17¢/kWh weekday 10 a.
- Arizona — Set per utility, not statewide. APS: $0.05554/kWh. TEP: $0.0513/kWh, w
- California — No single statewide export rate. Compensation is set by the CPUC Avoid
- Colorado — No single statewide dollar export rate. Under ordinary net metering, m
- Florida — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate. Monthly net exports ar
- Georgia — 3.2188¢/kWh solar avoided cost for 2026, plus 4¢/kWh adder for RNR-Ins
- Hawaii — Hawaiian Electric Smart Renewable Energy Export rates for 2024-2026, i
- Illinois — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate. For new residential and small
- Indiana — Utility-specific EDG rates, not one statewide rate; the verified utili
- Louisiana — Avoided-cost export rates effective in 2026 are $0.0386407/kWh for Ent
- Maryland — No single statewide export price: for the annual-accrual option, net e
- Massachusetts — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate. For ordinary qualifying solar
- Michigan — Utility- and rate-schedule-specific, not one statewide flat rate. DTE'
- Minnesota — There is no single statewide dollar export rate. Xcel's latest posted
- Missouri — Utility-specific avoided-fuel-cost/cogeneration rate, not a single sta
- Nevada — Tier 4 exports are credited at 75% of the applicable retail rate; Nort
- New Jersey — One-for-one retail-rate credit against delivered electricity during th
- New York — No single statewide $/kWh rate. The Value Stack is calculated from uti
- North Carolina — No single statewide export rate exists. For the current DEC NMB and RS
- Ohio — No single statewide dollar rate. Under the standard utility tariff, ex
- Oregon — Full retail rate for each rate component on the bill that uses kWh as
- Pennsylvania — No single statewide dollar rate: full retail kWh rate for monthly offs
- South Carolina — No single statewide export rate exists. Santee Cooper's DG-25 rider li
- Tennessee — NESolar Connect publishes seasonal base rates of $0.07363/kWh summer,
- Texas — No statewide rate. Published municipal examples include Austin Energy
- Utah — Schedule 137: 4.855 cents/kWh for exports in June through September; 4
- Virginia — No single statewide rate exists. APCo Rider N.M.S. II lists total avoi
- Washington — Applicable retail energy rate / kWh credit under the customer's utilit
- Wisconsin — Utility-specific. 2026 examples are WEPCO CGS-NM residential/secondary