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Net Metering Program

All 51 states · 170 providers on the schedule

Your meter is
supposed to run
backward.

Your utility charges you one price for a kilowatt hour and credits you a different one for the kilowatt hour you send back. That gap depends entirely on whose name is at the top of your bill. We read all 170 providers’ published rates, in every state, so you can see yours before anyone quotes you anything.

See what yours paysHow this works
Meter readingkWh
Energy charge$158.27
$158.27
DirectionReading…

Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41685 kilowatt hours. A 863 kilowatt hour month against 1,104 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 241 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $158.27 to $0.00 at 18.34 cents per kilowatt hour.

the US average household use, 863 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 18.34¢ per kWh. Your utility still bills a fixed monthly customer charge that no system offsets, so this is the energy part of the bill, which is the part that goes away.

OUC: If your OUC solar was connected after 30 June 2025, you are on the full retail rate only because of a temporary grace period, and it ends on 31 October 2026.

What that means for you

BGE: Maryland’s full retail rate net metering closes to new customers at the earlier of a 3,000 MW statewide cap or 1 July 2027, under HB 1532.

What that means for you

What you pay has gone up nearly 40% since 2020.

A US household paid 13.15 cents for a kilowatt hour in 2020. It is 18.34 now. That is the number every quote you are shown is really competing against, and it is the one nobody selling you anything puts on a slide.

US household · electricity bill per year$ / year
2020$1,362
2021$1,415
2022$1,558
2023$1,657
2024$1,707
2025$1,792
June 2026$1,900
2030$2,371
What you already paid in 2020Added since
+$1,009a year more for the same electricity by 2030, if the pace since 2020 holds. That is 74% on top of the 2020 bill.
US household · electricity bill per year
YearCents per kilowatt hourAnnual bill, US dollars
202013.15$1,362
202113.66$1,415
202215.04$1,558
202316$1,657
202416.48$1,707
202517.3$1,792
June 202618.34$1,900
2030 (Projected)22.89$2,371
Bills are the EIA US residential average of 10,359 kWh a year, priced at each published rate. Arithmetic, not a forecast: the rate actually observed from 2020 to June 2026, 5.7% a year, carried forward at the same pace. EIA reports retail prices rising faster than inflation since 2022 but publishes no figure this far out, so we are not going to borrow authority we do not have. US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual table 2.10 and Electric Power Monthly table 5.6.A. Checked 2026-09-18.

5,077,543 American homes already did this.

Not a projection. EIA counts them, and the count has nearly doubled since 2020. Whatever your neighbours are being told, a lot of them have already run the numbers and signed.

US homes on net metering

5,077,543

was 2,661,029 in 2020

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
1.9× in four years

Together they run 34,226 megawatts on their own roofs, up from 16,433 in 2020. US Energy Information Administration, State Electricity Profile for the United States, table 11. Checked 2026-09-18.

Who sends you a power bill?

No national rule sets what your utility pays you. Investor owned companies answer to a state commission, municipals and cooperatives write their own terms, and the answer changes at the state line. We read all 170 of them so you do not have to.

All 51 states, 170 electric companies.

Net metering is set by your electric company and the commission that regulates it, so the terms change at the state line and sometimes at the county line. We have read all 170 of them from the tariff or the order itself rather than from a comparison site. Find yours.

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What actually happens after you pick

Most sites in this business hand your number to a sales team and disappear. We do the preparation first, so the company that turns up already knows your situation.

You see your real terms

Your provider page shows what that specific utility credits you, when it trues up, and where the catch is. Sourced and dated, not a sales page.

You choose the company

Licensed contractors serving your territory in the US, ordered by review volume and years trading. You pick. Not a call center, not an auction.

We set the whole thing up

We call you, go through your bill and your last twelve months of use, work out what your utility owes you, and get the program paperwork in order.

They arrive prepared

The company you chose turns up to a job that is already understood, with your figures in hand. No cold pitch on your doorstep.