Pennsylvania solar export compensation
What Pennsylvania 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?
No single rate — formula based
Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled at Price to Compare
PECO Energy · Pennsylvania
Rate RS-2 Net Metering; utility tariff states first-come, first-served availability subject to system impacts.
Source: peco.com
Full PECO Energy detail →Pennsylvania's current statewide framework remains conventional net metering under 52 Pa. Code Chapter 75: EDCs credit qualifying exports at the full retail kilowatt-hour rate, with annual settlement of remaining credits at the default-service Price to Compare. I found no Pennsylvania Act 40 of 2024 that replaced net metering with a statewide 'net crediting' regime; the relevant Act 40 identified by the PUC is Act 40 of 2017, and current PUC materials still describe net metering. A separate PUC DER wholesale-markets rulemaking is pending and is not an effective replacement for net metering.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Net metering: EDCs credit qualifying customer-generators for exports against usage at the full retail kilowatt-hour rate; remaining annual excess is settled by the DSP at its Price to Compare. |
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| Export rate | No single statewide dollar rate: full retail kWh rate for monthly offsetting, including generation, transmission and distribution; remaining annual excess is paid at the DSP's Price to Compare. |
| Rate effective | The current Chapter 75 net-metering provisions cited here were adopted effective November 19, 2016; utility Price to Compare values change by utility and service period. No 2024 statewide net-crediting effective date was found. |
| Credit rollover | Excess kWh carry forward and are credited against usage in subsequent billing periods at the full retail rate; credits continue to accumulate until year-end. |
| Credit expiration | At the end of the year, remaining EDC/DSP excess kWh are settled in cash at the DSP Price to Compare rather than carried indefinitely. For EGS customers, remaining unbundled distribution credits are zeroed out at year-end and do not carry into the next year. |
| Annual true-up | The annual reporting/planning year ends May 31 (June 1 through May 31); annual excess-credit settlement occurs at the end of that year. |
| Residential system cap | Not greater than 50 kW nameplate capacity at a residential service location. |
| Commercial system cap | Not larger than 3 MW at other customer service locations, with an exception up to 5 MW for qualifying large customer-generators under § 75.16. |
| Aggregate program cap | No statewide aggregate program-wide capacity cap is stated in current 52 Pa. Code § 75.13; EDC net metering is offered on a first-come, first-served basis subject to the rule and tariff conditions. |
| Program status | Open statewide under the first-come, first-served rule; individual utility interconnection remains subject to engineering and tariff review. |
| Regulator | Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC); the PUC administers the Chapter 75 net-metering and interconnection rules for EDCs. |
| Docket | L-2023-3044115, Distributed Energy Resources Participation in Wholesale Markets (proposed Chapter 57 rules); it is not a docket replacing Chapter 75 net metering. |
| Governing rule | 52 Pa. Code §§ 75.11-75.17 (Net Metering), especially § 75.13; interconnection standards are in §§ 75.21 et seq. |
| Grandfathering | No separate statewide grandfathering schedule was identified in current § 75.13; existing customer-generators remain governed by the applicable Chapter 75 rules and their EDC tariff, while switching suppliers triggers treatment as year-end. |
| Interconnection application | Apply through the serving EDC for its interconnection instructions, forms and fees. Systems 500 kW or larger require the EDC to submit a completed net-metering application to the PUC Bureau of Technical Utility Services. |
| Interconnection timeline | Review timing depends on interconnection level. For a 500 kW-or-larger net-metering application, the EDC has 20 days to submit its recommendation, and the PUC acts within 10 days of a recommendation to approve; the PUC rules also provide a 5-day/30-day limit for a recommendation to deny. Other levels use the applicable Level 1-4 review procedures. |
| Pending change | Approved as a notice of proposed rulemaking, not yet an effective replacement for net metering: PUC docket L-2023-3044115 proposes Chapter 57 rules for DER aggregation/wholesale-market participation. Separately, a December 2025 PUC motion proposed a future modernization of interconnection regulations. |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| PECO Energy | Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled at Price to Compare Current tariff fetched effective April 1, 2026 Rate RS-2 Net Metering; utility tariff states first-come, first-served availability subject to system impacts. |
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| PPL Electric Utilities | Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled at Price to Compare Current renewable net-metering rider fetched in 2026 PPL rider says excess accumulates through the PJM planning period ending May 31 and is then compensated at the applicable Price to Compare. |
| Duquesne Light | Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled at Price to Compare Current Tariff No. 25 (105), effective June 1, 2026 Utility-specific tariff and interconnection materials apply in addition to Chapter 75. |
| Met-Ed (FirstEnergy) | Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled under the tariff's full-retail-value rule Met-Ed Tariff No. 52 Supplement 134 fetched in 2026 FirstEnergy provides a Pennsylvania interconnection portal and Level 1/2-4 application paths. |
| West Penn Power | Full retail rate for monthly netting; annual excess settled under the tariff's full-retail-value rule Current FirstEnergy Pennsylvania tariff fetched effective April 1, 2026 FirstEnergy's Pennsylvania interconnection process applies; distribution credits do not carry into the next year. |
Sources read for this record
- puc.pa.gov/media/2783/using_alternative_energy_at_home_in_pa_factsheet-feb2024.pd
- pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=%2Fsecure%2Fpacode%2Fdata%2F052%2Fchapter75%2Fsubc
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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