Idaho Power solar export rate
What Idaho Power pays for power exported from rooftop solar in Idaho, with the source and the date it was checked.
Fixed export rate
Summer On-Peak 15.6836¢/kWh; Summer Off-Peak 3.3920¢/kWh; Non-summer 2.9019¢/kWh under Schedule 6.
Idaho Power · Idaho
Non-legacy customers receive dollar financial credits under real-time net billing; legacy systems retain monthly net energy metering.
Source: docs.idahopower.com
Full Idaho Power detail →Idaho rules that apply to Idaho Power
The state framework sets the default. Where Idaho Power pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Idaho Power's non-legacy compensation is real-time net billing with an avoided cost-based financial credit rate for exported energy; legacy systems remain under monthly net energy metering. |
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| Export rate | Idaho Power Schedule 6 lists Export Credit Rate, per kWh: Summer On-Peak 15.6836¢, Summer Off-Peak 3.3920¢, and Non-summer 2.9019¢. |
| Rate effective | Idaho Power Schedule 6 is effective January 1, 2026; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 136 credits are effective for customer billing cycles beginning after December 1, 2025. |
| Credit rollover | Idaho Power Financial Credits shall carry forward provided the Customer maintains electric service at the same Point of Delivery; Avista credits appear on the bill for following billing periods; Rocky Mountain Power excess credits carry-over to the next monthly bill. |
| Credit expiration | Avista's remaining unused kWh credits are granted to the Company on March 31 of each calendar year without compensation; Idaho Power unused kWh Credits expire at the time the final bill is prepared. |
| Annual true-up | Avista's annual credit expiration is March 31; Idaho Power annual transfer requests must be received on or before January 31 and transfers must be executed no later than March 31; Rocky Mountain Power transfer requests must be received by March 31. |
| Aggregate program cap | Idaho's enacted net-metering statute sets a utility threshold of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the utility's single hour peak load during the previous year, after which the obligation to offer net metering to a new customer-generator may be limited. |
| Program status | Idaho Power Schedule 6 is closed to new applications for Net Energy Metering effective December 21, 2019; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 is closed to applications for new service as of October 2, 2020. |
| Grandfathering | Idaho Power legacy status for eligible Exporting Systems will terminate December 2045; Rocky Mountain Power Schedule 135 service will terminate on October 2, 2045. |
| Regulator | Commission means the Idaho public utilities commission as defined in section 61-102, Idaho Code. |
| Governing rule | Idaho Code Chapter 8, Net Energy Metering, sections 61-801 through 61-805, together with utility tariffs and Idaho Public Utilities Commission orders. |
| Pending change | Idaho Power's annual ECR update requirement is suspended until 2028, and the company must maintain the rates set by Order No. 36785 until its April 1, 2028 filing; Rocky Mountain Power must maintain its ECR until filing for an update on July 1, 2028. |
Other Idaho utilities
- Avista Utilities (Idaho)Formula basedRetail-rate netting for the billing period; no single dollar export rate is stated in Schedule
- Rocky Mountain Power (ID)Fixed rateSchedule 136: Summer billing months June through October: On-Peak 14.666¢/kWh and Off-Peak 3.66