Dominion Energy Virginia solar export rate
What Dominion Energy Virginia pays for power exported from rooftop solar in Virginia, with the source and the date it was checked.
No single rate — formula based
Legacy annual net metering at retail-value offsets; net excess generation under a requested PPA is paid at the PJM DOMZONE day-ahead annual simple-average LMP. Approved future NEM 2.0 value: $0.05829/kWh.
Dominion Energy Virginia · Virginia
Current customers are protected; Dominion NEM 2.0 is approved for new customers after the future effective date established through revised tariffs.
Source: dominionenergy.com · scc.virginia.gov
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The state framework sets the default. Where Dominion Energy Virginia pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Utility-specific annual net metering: generation offsets consumption over a 12-month net-metering period; net excess generation fed to the grid is compensated under the utility's approved avoided-cost/PJM-LMP mechanism. APCo Rider N.M.S. II uses avoided-cost credits; Dominion's approved NEM 2.0 uses a 30-minute export-credit design, but it is not yet the current Dominion tariff. |
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| Export rate | No single statewide rate exists. APCo Rider N.M.S. II lists total avoided-cost credits of $0.0566/kWh for residential secondary, $0.0581/kWh for commercial/industrial secondary, $0.0552/kWh for primary, $0.0553/kWh for sub-transmission, and $0.0546/kWh for transmission. Dominion's current tariff uses the PJM DOMZONE day-ahead annual simple-average LMP under a power-purchase agreement; Dominion NEM 2.0's approved net-excess-generation compensation value is $0.05829/kWh for the future tariff. |
| Rate effective | APCo Rider N.M.S. II: November 27, 2025. Dominion NEM 2.0: approved April 30, 2026; the Commission ordered revised tariff language, but the current Dominion terms-and-conditions filing remains effective February 5, 2026 and retains the legacy structure as of the verification date. |
| Credit rollover | Billing-period excess credits carry forward and are applied against later positive usage within the 12-month net-metering period. At the end of the period, only allowable excess generation may carry into the next period under the applicable tariff; APCo's current rider states excess generation is not transferable. |
| Credit expiration | Unused credits are reconciled at the end of each 12-month net-metering period. Excess generation beyond the amount permitted to carry forward is forfeited under the APCo customer materials; Dominion's current tariff pays remaining excess only through a requested power-purchase agreement and otherwise provides no compensation from the Company. |
| Annual true-up | Each successive 12-month net-metering period, beginning with the first meter reading after final interconnection; the annual reconciliation occurs at the customer's net-metering anniversary/period end. |
| Aggregate program cap | 6.0% of the participating investor-owned electric distribution company's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast for the previous year: 5.0% available to all customers and 1.0% reserved for low-income utility customers. |
| Program status | The 6% aggregate cap remains in the governing regulation; the APCo final order says the cap shall continue. A statewide used-cap percentage or remaining-capacity figure was not published in the documents reviewed, so open/full/closed cannot be asserted as a statewide status. |
| Grandfathering | Existing customer-generators are protected from a successor final-order tariff; APCo's Rider N.M.S. II order preserves existing Rider N.M.S. customers and qualifying pre-effective-date applications under the prior tariff for up to 25 years. Dominion's order says current customers may stay on the current tariff or switch to NEM 2.0. |
| Regulator | Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), including its Division of Public Utility Regulation. |
| Governing rule | Va. Code § 56-594 and 20 VAC 5-315, Regulations Governing Net Energy Metering; the tariff-level APCo and Dominion terms implement those provisions. |
| Pending change | Dominion NEM 2.0 is approved but not yet reflected as effective in the current Dominion terms-and-conditions filing as of 2026-09-16. The approved design uses a 30-minute netting interval and a $0.05829/kWh net-excess-generation compensation value; the order requires revised tariff language within 90 days of publication. |
Other Virginia utilities
- Appalachian Power (VA)Fixed rateRider N.M.S. II total avoided-cost credit: $0.0566/kWh residential secondary; $0.0581/kWh comme