District of Columbia solar export compensation
What District of Columbia 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
Formula: monthly excess generation is credited in kWh at the applicable full retail rate; annual excess above 100% of annual consumption is compensated at the generation rate only, per kWh. No single fixed dollar-per-kWh export rate is stated.
Pepco · District of Columbia
Pepco's Rider NEM is the applicable utility tariff; it also contains a separate Community Net Metering rider for CREF subscribers.
Source: pepco.com
Full Pepco detail →The District of Columbia has active net energy metering administered by the Public Service Commission and delivered through Pepco's NEM rider. Monthly excess generation is credited in kWh at the applicable full retail rate; at the December calendar-year close, excess above 100% of annual consumption is compensated at the generation rate only. Credits above $25 are refunded, while credits of $25 or less carry forward until exhausted. Customer-generators are capped at 1,000 kW, and the rules allow the annual generation threshold to reach 200% of historical 12-month usage from 2024 onward. Community renewable energy facilities are a separate community-net-metering category capped at 5 MW.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Pepco's Net Energy Metering Rider credits monthly excess generation in kWh; at the end of December, excess generation above 100% of annual consumption is compensated at the generation rate only, per kWh. |
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| Export rate | Monthly excess generation is credited at the applicable full retail rate; annual excess above 100% of annual consumption is compensated at the generation rate only, per kWh. The tariff does not state one fixed statewide dollar-per-kWh export price. |
| Rate effective | The reviewed Pepco tariff is effective for usage on and after February 1, 2026. |
| Credit rollover | Credits of $25 or less at the end of the calendar year are carried over until the full credit has been exhausted; a monthly credit exceeding the bill is credited to the next monthly bill. |
| Credit expiration | The tariff does not provide an expiration date for credits of $25 or less; those credits carry over until the full credit has been exhausted. |
| Annual true-up | The annual net-metering settlement occurs at the end of the calendar year, in December. |
| Residential system cap | A customer-generator facility may have a capacity of not more than 1000 kilowatts. |
| Commercial system cap | The same customer-generator definition applies to residential and commercial customers and allows a facility with a capacity of not more than 1000 kilowatts. |
| Aggregate program cap | A community renewable energy facility (CREF) may have a capacity no greater than five megawatts and must have at least two subscribers. |
| Program status | The Pepco NEM rider is active for usage on and after February 1, 2026 and applies to listed residential and commercial rate schedules that meet the statutory and Commission-rule requirements. |
| Regulator | The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia administers the District's Net Energy Metering and Community Net Metering Rules. |
| Docket | The Pepco rider identifies the Commission's Net Energy Metering Rules as adopted in Order No. 15837, issued June 11, 2010; the community-net-metering provisions cite Order No. 17862, issued April 24, 2015. |
| Governing rule | D.C. Code § 34-1518 and Chapter 9 of Title 15 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations govern net energy metering and community net metering. |
| Grandfathering | Not yet verified |
| Interconnection application | Pepco's Green Power Connection process receives interconnection applications and manages the net-energy-metering application process through the Authorization to Operate; a customer must apply for interconnection. |
| Interconnection timeline | Pepco's published District of Columbia interconnection table lists application-review notifications of 15 business days for Level 1, 20 business days for Level 2, 25 business days for Level 3, and study for Level 4. |
| Pending change | No pending change is identified in the reviewed current tariff; the tariff states that its effective date is usage on and after February 1, 2026. |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| Pepco | Formula: monthly excess generation is credited in kWh at the applicable full retail rate; annual excess above 100% of annual consumption is compensated at the generation rate only, per kWh. No single fixed dollar-per-kWh export rate is stated. Usage on and after February 1, 2026 Pepco's Rider NEM is the applicable utility tariff; it also contains a separate Community Net Metering rider for CREF subscribers. |
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Sources read for this record
- pepco.com/cdn/assets/v3/assets/bltbb7c204688a1a6a8/blt1592c0ff5185f738/69839b400
- dcpsc.org/getattachment/Orders-and-Regulations/Orders-Rules-and-Regulations/Dist
- code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/34-1518
- code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/34-1518.01
- owpi.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddoe/publication/attachments/Overview%20G
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- How these figures are sourced and dated
- Alabama — Rate PAE 2026 payment options are time-of-day: 5.17¢/kWh weekday 10 a.
- Alaska — There is no single statewide dollar export rate: the applicable rate i
- Arizona — Set per utility, not statewide. APS: $0.05554/kWh. TEP: $0.0513/kWh, w
- Arkansas — There is no single statewide export number. Non-legacy exports are cre
- 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
- Connecticut — Netting export rate is a formula, not a single statewide dollar figure
- Delaware — There is no single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate: the monthly e
- 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
- Idaho — Idaho Power Schedule 6 lists Export Credit Rate, per kWh: Summer On-Pe
- 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
- Iowa — There is no single statewide dollar rate. Under the current inflow-out
- Kansas — There is no single statewide dollar rate. For systems operating under
- Kentucky — There is no single statewide export rate. Current published utility ex
- Louisiana — Avoided-cost export rates effective in 2026 are $0.0386407/kWh for Ent
- Maine — There is no single statewide export price. The kWh Credit Program prov
- 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
- Mississippi — There is no single statewide export rate. Entergy Mississippi's Attach
- Missouri — Utility-specific avoided-fuel-cost/cogeneration rate, not a single sta
- Montana — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate is stated in the review
- Nebraska — There is no single statewide dollar export rate in the reviewed source
- Nevada — Tier 4 exports are credited at 75% of the applicable retail rate; Nort
- New Hampshire — There is no single statewide dollar-per-kWh rate: for small customer-g
- New Jersey — One-for-one retail-rate credit against delivered electricity during th
- New Mexico — There is no single statewide fixed export number in the cited rule. Ex
- 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
- North Dakota — No single statewide dollar export rate is stated. For energy provided
- Ohio — No single statewide dollar rate. Under the standard utility tariff, ex
- Oklahoma — There is no single statewide dollar export rate. Net excess is credite
- 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
- Rhode Island — There is no single statewide dollar headline rate. Renewable net-meter
- South Carolina — No single statewide export rate exists. Santee Cooper's DG-25 rider li
- South Dakota — There is no single statewide export rate. The PUC says South Dakota do
- 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
- Vermont — The statewide blended residential base credit is $0.2071/kWh effective
- 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
- West Virginia — Mon Power lists $0.09343 per kWh for Schedules A, B, C, CSH and Lighti
- Wisconsin — Utility-specific. 2026 examples are WEPCO CGS-NM residential/secondary
- Wyoming — No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate exists. Energy exported