Atlantic City Electric solar export rate
What Atlantic City Electric pays for power exported from rooftop solar in New Jersey, with the source and the date it was checked.
No single rate — formula based
Retail-rate net energy metering; annual surplus paid at avoided cost of wholesale power
Atlantic City Electric · New Jersey
ACE's filed New Jersey tariff includes Rider NEM and its continuation sheets; credit treatment is governed by the NJBPU NEM rules and the statewide avoided-cost true-up provision.
Source: atlanticcityelectric.com
Full Atlantic City Electric detail →New Jersey rules that apply to Atlantic City Electric
The state framework sets the default. Where Atlantic City Electric pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Retail-rate net metering for Class I renewable-energy systems, with annual surplus compensation at avoided cost of wholesale power; applies to new residential, commercial, and public-entity customer-generators served by participating EDCs. |
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| Export rate | One-for-one retail-rate credit against delivered electricity during the annualized period; net excess remaining at true-up is paid at the supplier/BGS provider's avoided cost of wholesale power, which varies with wholesale market prices and customer/voltage category. |
| Rate effective | Retail-rate netting applies during each monthly billing period within the customer-selected 12-month annualized period; the avoided-cost cash-out applies at the end of that annualized period. |
| Credit rollover | Unused kWh credits carry forward from month to month within the 12-month annualized period at their kWh value and offset later delivered kWh; they are not carried forward past the annual true-up as kWh credits. |
| Credit expiration | Banked kWh credits are cleared at the end of each annualized period and converted to a monetary credit at avoided cost of wholesale power on the following bill. |
| Annual true-up | The customer selects a 12-month annualized period; absent a selection, it begins on the first day of a monthly billing period designated by the utility, commonly the month net metering is activated. The anniversary month is the annual true-up month. |
| Aggregate program cap | The Clean Energy Act permits the Board to stop offering net metering to new customers when statewide net-metering generation exceeds 5.8% of the prior year's total annual kWh sales by each supplier/BGS provider; this is a threshold, not a fixed MW enrollment cap. |
| Program status | NJBPU Staff reported that the 5.8% threshold was exceeded during Energy Year 2024 (ended May 31, 2024), but the Board has not been identified as having terminated retail net metering for new customers; a successor-policy stakeholder proceeding is underway. |
| Grandfathering | Existing net-metered customers are protected from a future NJBPU-authorized cessation because the Clean Energy Act permits stopping net metering only for customers who are not already net metered. The cited NJBPU materials establish no fixed grandfathering sunset or duration and QO24090723 remains a successor-policy stakeholder proceeding, not an adopted transition rule. |
| Regulator | New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), Trenton |
| Governing rule | N.J.S.A. 48:3-87(e) and N.J.A.C. 14:8-4 (Net Metering for Class I Renewable Energy Systems); interconnection procedures are in N.J.A.C. 14:8-5. |
| Pending change | NJBPU docket QO24090723 is an open stakeholder proceeding on a possible successor net-metering policy for new customers; the February 5, 2025 technical-conference notice says Staff is developing a shortlist of successor-policy options, but it does not announce an effective replacement date. Separately, the SuSI ADI portal is open to new registrations; the May 21, 2026 ADI order reduced the residential SREC-II incentive from $85/MWh to $77/MWh for registrations received on or after July 27, 2026, and opened EY2027 capacity allocations June 1, 2026. |
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