Idaho solar export compensation
What Idaho pays for exported rooftop solar power, with the source and the date each figure was checked.
Record verified 2026-09-16 · 17 of 17 fields sourced
What does your utility pay?
Fixed export rate
Summer On-Peak 15.6836¢/kWh; Summer Off-Peak 3.3920¢/kWh; Non-summer 2.9019¢/kWh under Schedule 6.
Idaho Power · Idaho
Non-legacy customers receive dollar financial credits under real-time net billing; legacy systems retain monthly net energy metering.
Source: docs.idahopower.com
Full Idaho Power detail →Idaho has a net-metering statute, but exported-solar compensation is principally set by utility tariffs approved by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. Idaho Power uses legacy monthly net energy metering and, for non-legacy systems, real-time net billing with a seasonal, time-varying avoided-cost-based Export Credit Rate (ECR). Avista's Idaho Schedule 63 credits excess kilowatt-hours against later bills and uses retail-rate netting, with annual forfeiture of unused credits. Rocky Mountain Power closed Schedule 135 to new applications and uses Schedule 136 net billing for new customers, with seasonal/time-of-day export credits; legacy Schedule 135 customers remain on that schedule for 25 years.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Idaho Power's non-legacy compensation is real-time net billing with an avoided cost-based financial credit rate for exported energy; legacy systems remain under monthly net energy metering. |
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| Export rate | Idaho Power Schedule 6 lists Export Credit Rate, per kWh: Summer On-Peak 15.6836¢, Summer Off-Peak 3.3920¢, and Non-summer 2.9019¢. |
| Rate effective | Idaho Power Schedule 6 is effective January 1, 2026; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 136 credits are effective for customer billing cycles beginning after December 1, 2025. |
| Credit rollover | Idaho Power Financial Credits shall carry forward provided the Customer maintains electric service at the same Point of Delivery; Avista credits appear on the bill for following billing periods; Rocky Mountain Power excess credits carry-over to the next monthly bill. |
| Credit expiration | Avista's remaining unused kWh credits are granted to the Company on March 31 of each calendar year without compensation; Idaho Power unused kWh Credits expire at the time the final bill is prepared. |
| Annual true-up | Avista's annual credit expiration is March 31; Idaho Power annual transfer requests must be received on or before January 31 and transfers must be executed no later than March 31; Rocky Mountain Power transfer requests must be received by March 31. |
| Residential system cap | Idaho Power Schedule 6 limits the generation facility to 25 kilowatts (kW) or less; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 136 says an eligible generating plant may not have more than 25 kilowatts for customers on Schedules 1 or 36. |
| Commercial system cap | Idaho Power Schedule 84's eligibility cap is the greater of 100 kW or 100% of demand; Rocky Mountain Power's non-residential cap is the greater of the customer's peak demand or 100 kW, not exceeding 2 MW. |
| Aggregate program cap | Idaho's enacted net-metering statute sets a utility threshold of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the utility's single hour peak load during the previous year, after which the obligation to offer net metering to a new customer-generator may be limited. |
| Program status | Idaho Power Schedule 6 is closed to new applications for Net Energy Metering effective December 21, 2019; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 is closed to applications for new service as of October 2, 2020. |
| Regulator | Commission means the Idaho public utilities commission as defined in section 61-102, Idaho Code. |
| Docket | Case No. IPC-E-23-14, Order No. 36048; the Idaho Power first annual ECR update was Case No. IPC-E-25-15, Order No. 36785; Rocky Mountain Power's ECR case was Case No. PAC-E-25-02, Order No. 36845. |
| Governing rule | Idaho Code Chapter 8, Net Energy Metering, sections 61-801 through 61-805, together with utility tariffs and Idaho Public Utilities Commission orders. |
| Grandfathering | Idaho Power legacy status for eligible Exporting Systems will terminate December 2045; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 service will terminate on October 2, 2045. |
| Interconnection application | Idaho Power requires customers to meet all applicable requirements detailed in Schedule 68, Interconnections to Customer Distributed Energy Resources; Rocky Mountain Power requires an interconnection agreement prior to interconnection. |
| Interconnection timeline | Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 gives a customer 12 months from receipt of confirmation that the interconnection request is approved to interconnect. |
| Pending change | Idaho Power's annual ECR update requirement is suspended until 2028, and the company must maintain the rates set by Order No. 36785 until its April 1, 2028 filing; Rocky Mountain Power must maintain its ECR until filing for an update on July 1, 2028. |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| Idaho Power | Summer On-Peak 15.6836¢/kWh; Summer Off-Peak 3.3920¢/kWh; Non-summer 2.9019¢/kWh under Schedule 6. January 1, 2026 Non-legacy customers receive dollar financial credits under real-time net billing; legacy systems retain monthly net energy metering. |
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| Avista Utilities (Idaho) | Retail-rate netting for the billing period; no single dollar export rate is stated in Schedule 63. Schedule 63 effective July 7, 2010, with the credit-expiration revision effective November 1, 2019. Excess kWh credits appear on following bills; remaining unused credits are granted to Avista on March 31 without compensation. |
| Rocky Mountain Power (Idaho) | Schedule 136: Summer billing months June through October: On-Peak 14.666¢/kWh and Off-Peak 3.664¢/kWh; November through May: On-Peak 5.597¢/kWh and Off-Peak 1.228¢/kWh. Customer billing cycles beginning after December 1, 2025. Schedule 135 is closed to new applications; Schedule 136 is net billing and excess credits carry over to the next monthly bill. |
Sources read for this record
- docs.idahopower.com/pdfs/aboutus/ratesregulatory/tariffs/313.pdf
- puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/IPC/IPCE2314/OrdNotc/20231229Final_Order_No_
- puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/IPC/IPCE2515/OrdNotc/20250930Final_Order_No_
- legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2002/legislation/s1368/
- myavista.com/-/media/myavista/content-documents/our-rates-and-tariffs/id/id_063.pdf
- rockymountainpower.net/content/dam/pcorp/documents/en/rockymountainpower/rates-regulation/ida
- rockymountainpower.net/content/dam/pcorp/documents/en/rockymountainpower/rates-regulation/ida
- puc.idaho.gov/Fileroom/PublicFiles/ELEC/PAC/PACE2502/OrdNotc/20251114Final_Order_No_
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- 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
- District of Columbia — Monthly excess generation is credited at the applicable full retail ra
- 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
- 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