Delaware Electric Cooperative solar export rate
What Delaware Electric Cooperative pays for power exported from rooftop solar in Delaware, with the source and the date it was checked.
No single rate — formula based
No single Delaware Electric Cooperative dollar-per-kWh rate is published; DEC says members are credited for excess energy produced, and 26 DE Admin. Code 3012 sets the statewide credit and annualized-billing-period rules that apply to DEC.
Delaware Electric Cooperative · Delaware
DEC's solar-interconnection page describes the bidirectional meter and crediting for excess energy but does not publish an export price; the credit rules that govern DEC are in 26 DE Admin. Code 3012, cited here.
Source: regulations.delaware.gov
Full Delaware Electric Cooperative detail →Delaware rules that apply to Delaware Electric Cooperative
The state framework sets the default. Where Delaware Electric Cooperative pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Net metering credits excess kWh against subsequent monthly consumption. Effective January 1, 2024 for residential and nonresidential commission-regulated customers, the monthly credit is valued at the sum of the account's volumetric supply-service and distribution-service charges, excluding societal-benefits-program charges. |
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| Export rate | There is no single statewide dollar-per-kWh export rate: the monthly excess-kWh credit is the sum of the participating account's volumetric supply-service and distribution-service components, excluding societal-benefits-program charges, according to that account's rate schedule. |
| Rate effective | The rate formula is effective January 1, 2024. |
| Credit rollover | Yes. Excess kWh credits are credited to subsequent billing periods to offset consumption until all credits are used, before the end of the annualized billing period. |
| Credit expiration | At the end of the annualized billing period, excess kWh credits revert to the electric distribution company; the utility shall not reimburse, credit, or otherwise remunerate the customer for them. |
| Annual true-up | The annualized billing period is 12 consecutive monthly billing periods; the first begins on the first day of the first full monthly billing period after interconnection and generation begin. |
| Aggregate program cap | An EDC may elect not to provide net metering to additional customers if total customer-generation using net metering exceeds 8.0% of the capacity necessary to meet the EDC's average Delaware transmission peak demand for the preceding 3 years. |
| Program status | The 8.0% threshold is an elective stop: an EDC may elect not to provide net metering services to additional customers after the threshold is exceeded. |
| Grandfathering | The rule states that eligibility for net-energy-metering services is not limited by direct ownership, joint ownership, or third-party ownership or financing of the generating facility, where net metering would otherwise be available. |
| Regulator | Delaware Public Service Commission. |
| Governing rule | 26 Del. Admin. Code 3012, Rules for Regulation of Net Metering, implementing 26 Del.C. § 1014. |
| Pending change | The Delaware Public Service Commission adopted amendments to 26 DE Admin. Code 3012 (Rules for Regulation of Net Metering) as final by Order No. 10908 dated December 17, 2025, published in the March 1, 2026 Delaware Register of Regulations; the order takes effect 10 days after final publication. |
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