PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) solar export rate
What PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) pays for power exported from rooftop solar in California, with the source and the date it was checked.
No single rate — formula based
Hourly ACC value + ACC Plus adder
PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) · California
Schedule NBT. The ACC delivery component is averaged across climate zones by simple average; generation does not vary by zone. Values published at pge.com/energyexportcredit.
Source: pge.com
Full PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) detail →California rules that apply to PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric)
The state framework sets the default. Where PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Net billing. The CPUC calls it the Net Billing Tariff (D.22-12-056); PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E market it as the Solar Billing Plan. Imports and exports are measured on separate meter channels and are never netted against each other. Retail-rate net metering (NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0) is closed to new interconnection requests. |
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| Export rate | No single statewide export rate. Compensation is set by the CPUC Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) and varies by month, hour, and weekday versus weekend/holiday. PG&E's published 2026 weekday credit values peak at $1.04281 per kWh, and PG&E describes the export rate as ranging from two cents to over two dollars per kWh depending on month and time of day. A residential ACC Plus adder (Energy Export Bonus Credit) applies on top for nine years from Permission to Operate: $0.00880/kWh for 2026 interconnections, and $0.03600/kWh for residential low-income (CARE/FERA or disadvantaged-community) customers. The adder declines 20% annually and sunsets after 2027. |
| Rate effective | 2026-vintage Avoided Cost Calculator values plus the 2026 ACC Plus adder. Values are locked for a customer by the calendar year of their completed interconnection application. The ACC itself is updated on the CPUC's two-year cycle in the IDER proceeding, R.14-10-003. |
| Credit rollover | Yes. Export credits accrue monthly and roll over within the customer's 12-month Relevant Period. Credits still unused at true-up carry forward into the customer's next Relevant Period rather than being cashed out. |
| Credit expiration | Credits do not expire at true-up. Under Ordering Paragraph 5(b) of Resolution E-5301, the utilities were directed to carry forward any excess generation or delivery credits remaining at the end of a Relevant Period to the customer's next Relevant Period. |
| Annual true-up | Annual, on the customer's own 12-month Relevant Period. Billing is monthly, so the annual true-up settles a running balance rather than presenting a single large annual bill. |
| Aggregate program cap | No statewide aggregate program cap; the Net Billing Tariff is open to eligible customers and sets customer/system eligibility requirements rather than a statewide enrollment limit. |
| Program status | Open. Electric Schedule NBT sets no enrollment cap. The NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0 tariffs that preceded it are closed: NEM 2.0 stopped accepting new interconnection requests after April 14, 2023. |
| Grandfathering | NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0 customers keep their tariff for 20 years from the date they interconnected, under D.14-03-041. NBT customers get a nine-year legacy period instead, running from the Permission to Operate date. Customers who move from NEM to NBT are not eligible for the NBT legacy period or the ACC Plus adder. |
| Regulator | California Public Utilities Commission. The tariff applies in the territories of the large investor-owned utilities: PG&E, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric. The small IOUs have separately approved tariffs. |
| Governing rule | CPUC Decision D.22-12-056 plus each utility's filed NBT tariff schedule (PG&E Electric Schedule NBT). NBT customers must also take service on an electrification time-of-use rate: E-ELEC at PG&E, TOU-D-PRIME at SCE, EV-TOU-5 at SDG&E. |
| Pending change | The CPUC's 2026 Avoided Cost Calculator update was issued as a staff proposal, proposing to shift reliability-risk capacity value allocation between weekdays and weekends, which would change the export rate shape. NBT customers may exit their nine-year rate lock-in early, but may not re-enter it once they do. |
Other California utilities
- SCE (Southern California Edison)Formula basedHourly ACC value + ACC Plus adder
- SDG&E (San Diego Gas & Electric)Formula basedHourly ACC value