Nevada solar export compensation
What Nevada 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
75% of applicable retail rate under NMR-2025 Tier 4, with 15-minute netting for applications approved on or after October 1, 2025
NV Energy North (Sierra Pacific) · Nevada
NMR-2025 applies to qualifying new Northern Nevada applications; existing customers remain on monthly netting.
Source: nvenergy.com
Full NV Energy North (Sierra Pacific) detail →Nevada uses AB 405 net metering with export credits tied to retail rates. Tier 4 is open and credits exports at 75% of retail; Northern Nevada new applications approved on or after October 1, 2025 use 15-minute netting, while existing customers remain on their prior monthly-netting arrangements.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Net metering with billing credits: monthly net energy measurement in Southern Nevada; 15-minute netting for qualifying new Northern Nevada applications. |
|---|---|
| Export rate | Tier 4 exports are credited at 75% of the applicable retail rate; Northern Nevada applications approved on or after October 1, 2025 use 15-minute netting at 75% of current applicable retail. |
| Rate effective | AB 405 rate structure effective June 15, 2017; Tier 4 became the current open tier after Tier 3 reached 80 MW; Northern Nevada 15-minute NMR-2025 applies to applications approved on or after October 1, 2025. |
| Credit rollover | Unused net-metering credits roll forward to the next monthly electric bill; statutory excess electricity may be carried forward indefinitely. |
| Credit expiration | No annual expiration is specified: excess electricity may carry forward indefinitely, but remaining compensation is forfeited on the statutory events including disconnection or ending utility service. |
| Annual true-up | No statewide annual true-up date; Nevada law uses monthly billing and permits indefinite carry-forward subject to statutory forfeiture conditions. |
| Residential system cap | For the AB 405 rooftop tier structure and NMR-405/NMR-2025, 25 kW or less; the statutory net-metering-system definition can include systems up to 1 MW subject to the applicable tariff. |
| Commercial system cap | NMR-405/NMR-2025 rooftop rider: 25 kW or less; larger qualifying systems use NMR-B, above 25 kW and not more than 1 MW. |
| Aggregate program cap | AB 405 allocates 80 MW each to Tranches 1, 2, and 3 (240 MW total); Tranche 4 has no capacity limit. |
| Program status | Open for new customers in Tier/Tranche 4; Tranches 1-3 are closed. |
| Regulator | Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN). |
| Docket | PUCN Docket 25-03006 is the NMR-2025 implementation proceeding; AB 405 itself established the underlying statutory tier structure. |
| Governing rule | Nevada Revised Statutes 704.766-704.775, including NRS 704.775 billing; AB 405 (2017), Section 28.3, sets the four tranches. |
| Grandfathering | Existing customers retain their applicable prior rate; AB 405 tiers lock the signup rate for 20 years at the original installation location, and existing Northern Nevada customers are not impacted by NMR-2025. |
| Interconnection application | Apply online through NV Energy PowerClerk; the application is incomplete until the required fee is paid, then submit required agreements, permits, and inspection documentation. |
| Interconnection timeline | NV Energy reviews applications within 10 business days; documentation review/inspection uses a further 10-business-day stage, with Rule 15 timelines for other review levels. |
| 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.
| NV Energy (Northern Nevada / Sierra Pacific Power) | 75% of applicable retail rate under NMR-2025 Tier 4, with 15-minute netting for applications approved on or after October 1, 2025 October 1, 2025 NMR-2025 applies to qualifying new Northern Nevada applications; existing customers remain on monthly netting. |
|---|---|
| NV Energy (Southern Nevada / Nevada Power) | 75% of applicable retail rate under NMR-405 Tier 4 June 15, 2017 rate structure; Tier 4 current open tier Monthly netting under NMR-405; Tier 4 has no capacity limit under the PUCN description. |
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- 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
- Connecticut — Netting export rate is a formula, not a single statewide dollar figure
- 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
- 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