Bills for customer-owned generation have different layouts and/or terms based on rates. Electric bills show the net difference between consumption and excess generation. The term for this is net kilowatt-hours (net kWh).
Electric bills show the net difference between consumption and excess generation. The term for this is net kilowatt-hours (net kWh).
Learn how net metering is calculated.
Understanding net energy billing
PG-4 Net generation
When your solar unit generates more energy than you use during the billing month, you receive a credit called Avoided Energy Cost. We pay you for the energy we don’t need to generate from another source.
PG-4 Net consumption
When you use more energy than your solar generation produces, you are charged the difference.
PG-2B Time-of-use metering
Measurements are taken every 15 minutes instead of totaling the entire billing period. Instead of using net kWh, the bill shows energy consumption and excess generation during on-peak, off-peak and mid-peak periods. Charges and credits are based on those periods.
The Avoided Energy Cost credits you for providing generation to the grid at different rates based on time of day. The Avoided Capacity Cost is an additional credit for supplying energy during the company’s designated on-peak period.
