Wyoming solar export compensation
What Wyoming pays for exported rooftop solar power, with the source and the date each figure was checked.
Record verified 2026-09-16 · 15 of 17 fields sourced
What does your utility pay?
No single rate — formula based
No single fixed export rate: monthly excess is credited in kWh; at the beginning of each calendar year leftover credits are sold at the average winter/summer non-firm avoided-cost rate in Schedule 37. Schedule 37 lists 2026 unused-net-metering-credit prices in cents/kWh, but the extracted table does not label the column values in the displayed text.
Rocky Mountain Power (WY) · Wyoming
Schedule 135 applies to solar, wind, biomass, or hydro facilities of not more than 25 kW.
Source: rockymountainpower.net
Full Rocky Mountain Power (WY) detail →Wyoming's net-metering statute remains in force as reflected in the 2025 code text reviewed: excess generation is credited on the following month's bill and any remaining annual credit is sold at the utility's filed avoided cost. The reviewed current Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 applies to systems no larger than 25 kW and pays annual leftover credits using the applicable Schedule 37 avoided-cost formula; it is effective for service on and after June 1, 2025. Black Hills Energy's Wyoming tariff likewise limits net metering to 25 kW, carries excess kWh forward, and pays annual leftover credits at its Standard Rate for Purchasing Power; the tariff states $0.02934/kWh. No enacted statewide 2026 successor-rate statute was found: SF0111, which proposed one, failed on third reading February 5, 2025. Cooperatives and other utilities may have separate filed tariffs.
Program details
| Compensation mechanism | Wyoming has no single statewide export rate; compensation comes from each utility's filed tariff. Under Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135, net energy is credited with the kilowatt-hour credit appearing on the bill for the following month, and any remaining unused credit at the start of the next calendar year is sold to the Company at the applicable Schedule 37 avoided-cost rate. Black Hills Energy applies the same net-metering billing method. |
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| Export rate | No single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate exists. Energy exported in a billing period is credited in kilowatt-hours against the following month's bill; leftover annual credits are purchased by the utility at a filed avoided-cost rate (Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 37, Black Hills Energy Standard Rate for Purchasing Power). |
| Rate effective | Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 is effective with service rendered on and after June 1, 2025. Its Schedule 37 avoided-cost update is effective with service rendered on and after April 30, 2026. Black Hills Energy's cited tariff states its $0.02934/kWh payment rate is in effect unless superseded; the reviewed PDF does not expose a net-metering effective date beside that rate. |
| Credit rollover | Yes. Rocky Mountain Power accumulates net excess kWh to offset consumption in subsequent months; Black Hills Energy likewise accumulates net excess kWh for subsequent months. |
| Credit expiration | At the beginning of each calendar year, remaining unused kWh credit from the previous year is sold to the utility at the applicable filed avoided-cost or standard purchasing-power rate; it is not carried indefinitely as a kWh credit. |
| Annual true-up | The annual true-up occurs at the beginning of each calendar year. |
| Residential system cap | 25 kW or less for Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 and Black Hills Energy's net-metering tariff; the cited Wyoming statute is implemented by those tariffs for these systems. |
| Commercial system cap | 25 kW or less under the cited Rocky Mountain Power and Black Hills Energy net-metering tariffs. No separate statewide commercial cap was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Aggregate program cap | Not yet verified |
| Program status | The current cited investor-owned-utility tariffs are available for systems of not more than 25 kW; no statewide aggregate cap or statewide successor-rate cap was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Regulator | Wyoming Public Service Commission. |
| Docket | Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 identifies Dkt. No. 20000-671-ER-24; the current Schedule 37 avoided-cost sheet identifies Dkt. No. 20000-687-ET-25. |
| Governing rule | Wyo. Stat. Ann. §§ 37-16-101 through 37-16-104 (Article 1, Net Metering), as cited by the utility tariffs. |
| Grandfathering | No enacted 2025 successor-rate grandfathering provision was identified. SF0111, the bill that proposed new-versus-existing customer-generator treatment and a PSC compensation system, failed on third reading in the Senate on February 5, 2025; the current reviewed tariffs instead state their own effective dates and terms. |
| Interconnection application | The reviewed tariffs require a qualifying customer to own and operate an eligible facility located on the customer's premises and interconnected in parallel with the utility's transmission or distribution facilities; no separate statewide application form or process was readable in the reviewed sources. |
| Interconnection timeline | Not yet verified |
| Pending change | Rocky Mountain Power filed an application to update Schedule 37 for avoided cost purchases of power from qualifying facilities. |
Rates by utility
State rules set the framework. Individual utilities often pay something different, and where they do the utility tariff governs.
| Rocky Mountain Power (Wyoming) | No single fixed export rate: monthly excess is credited in kWh; at the beginning of each calendar year leftover credits are sold at the average winter/summer non-firm avoided-cost rate in Schedule 37. Schedule 37 lists 2026 unused-net-metering-credit prices in cents/kWh, but the extracted table does not label the column values in the displayed text. Schedule 135: service rendered on and after June 1, 2025; Schedule 37 update: service rendered on and after April 30, 2026. Schedule 135 applies to solar, wind, biomass, or hydro facilities of not more than 25 kW. |
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| Black Hills Energy (Wyoming) | $0.02934/kWh for the Standard Rate for Purchasing Power from qualifying cogeneration or small power production facilities; the net-metering tariff directs annual leftover credits to that rate. The cited tariff says the energy payment rate is in effect unless and until superseded; no separate effective date was readable beside the rate. Net metering is available for solar, wind, biomass, or hydro facilities of not more than 25 kW in Black Hills' Wyoming territory; the tariff says it serves portions of northeast Wyoming. |
Sources read for this record
- rockymountainpower.net/content/dam/pcorp/documents/en/rockymountainpower/rates-regulation/wyo
- rockymountainpower.net/content/dam/pcorp/documents/en/rockymountainpower/rates-regulation/wyo
- blackhillsenergy.com/sites/blackhillsenergy.com/files/bhp_wy_rates.pdf
- wyoleg.gov/2025/Digest/SF0111.pdf
- rockymountainpower.net/content/dam/pcorp/documents/en/rockymountainpower/rates-regulation/wyo
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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
- 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
- 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