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Entergy Arkansas net metering in Arkansas

Central and eastern Arkansas, including Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Jonesboro. The largest utility in the state.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
730K

What they credit you

Avoided cost, since Act 278

Published terms

Exports are credited under net energy billing at a rate the utility sets from avoided costs rather than the retail rate. Systems whose interconnection agreement was submitted before 30 September 2024 keep one-to-one crediting to 1 June 2040.

Month to month
Per the utility’s net energy billing tariff.

Published terms · checked 2026-09-05 · source

Installers serving Entergy AR customers

Pick one. Only the company you choose receives your details, and only that company calls you.

Not sure which to choose?

These are real companies operating in Entergy AR territory. Bold Energy is listed first because it is the company we introduce first. That order is our choice, not a score. The other companies are ordered by reviews, years trading and BBB grade. None of them pays us for placement. Pick the one you want and we will call you to arrange it.

Ordering combines three things we read from primary sources: Google review count and rating, years trading taken from the company’s Better Business Bureau profile rather than its own marketing, and its BBB letter grade. BBB accreditation is shown but never scored, because it is a paid membership rather than a mark of quality.

Check any contractor license yourself at the state register. Do that before you sign anything, with any company, including ours.

What this looks like on a Entergy AR bill

An average Arkansas household, against a system sized to cover its year. The energy charge is the part that goes to zero. The fixed monthly charge underneath it is the part that never does, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

Meter readingkWh
Energy charge$147.98
$147.98
We have read this provider’s own tariff. What it still bills you at zero is set out below, with the sheet it came from. The energy line above uses the statewide average. See what they still bill
DirectionReading…

Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41634 kilowatt hours. A 1,048 kilowatt hour month against 1,340 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 292 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $147.98 to $0.00 at 14.12 cents per kilowatt hour.

Arkansas average household use, 1,048 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 14.12¢ 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.

Entergy AR requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in Entergy AR territory.

Entergy AR does not credit the power you send back at the rate it charges you to take it.

That does not make solar a bad idea in Entergy AR territory. It changes what you should build. When exports are worth a fraction of retail the credit stops being the return, and the job becomes using more of your own production inside the house, which usually means a larger array than a one for one utility would need.

Sizing is where that gets decided, so ask about it directly. Arkansas now sets the export credit from avoided costs rather than the retail rate, so a system built past your own daytime usage is selling at wholesale. The exception is a system grandfathered before October 2024, which is credited one for one until 2040. Entergy AR sets its own limits. Ask Entergy AR what it allows before you accept that a bigger system is off the table.

A battery then does two separate jobs. It moves daytime production into the evening so you use it instead of selling it, and it keeps the house running when the grid goes down. That second job is not a bonus. Panels on their own shut off in an outage, by design, so a roof full of them powers nothing during a storm. That is the part we will not refer around.

So we treat it as a requirement, not an upgrade. We will not refer you for a panels-only system in Entergy AR territory, and you should be skeptical of anyone who quotes you one without raising storage first.

Our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement

What your installer should be telling you

Ask for the current avoided cost credit in cents per kWh, and confirm in writing which side of the 30 September 2024 line your application falls on.

What Entergy AR bills you anyway

In a month when your production covers everything you use, the energy charge can reach zero. This does not. It is the floor under every bill, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

The charge
$8.40 a month
How it is set
Rate Schedule No. 1, General Purpose Residential Service, sets a “Customer Charge: $8.40”, and the minimum is written as a choice rather than a figure: “The greater of (1) the Net Monthly Rate Customer Charge shown above as adjusted by § 1.4.6, if applicable, or (2) an amount that may be required under the Company’s Rate Schedule No. 60, Extension of Facilities.” For an ordinary house already connected that is the $8.40; a property that needed line extension can be carrying a larger floor set by its own agreement, so check what you signed. Energy above it is seasonal and the summer tier runs the wrong way for a solar household: 7.392 cents for the first 1,500 kilowatt hours from June to September and 9.593 cents above that, against 6.990 cents for the first 1,000 then 5.154 cents from October to May. The dearest kilowatt hours of the year are the ones a July array is best placed to remove, which is the half of the arithmetic that favors solar here. There is a second residential rate worth knowing about because solar can move you onto it. The Low/Level Use Provision applies to a customer with twelve consecutive months at the same address whose annual consumption was “not greater than 6,000 kWh” and whose heaviest summer month was no more than 1.2 times the heaviest winter one. It keeps the same $8.40 customer charge and lowers every energy rate, so qualifying cuts the bill but also cuts what each displaced kilowatt hour is worth. Arkansas has closed net metering to new systems. Legacy Net-Metering Service survives as Rate Schedule No. 52, effective 31 December 2023, and new solar goes on the Solar Energy Purchase Option instead, Option A or Option B by agreement. The two are mutually exclusive — SEPO “is not available to Customers taking service under Legacy Net-Metering Service” — so which one you are on is decided when you interconnect and is not a thing you switch between later.

Part III, Rate Schedule No. 1, General Purpose Residential Service (RS), Arkansas Public Service Commission Docket 18-073-TF Order 2, effective 1 February 2019; solar options at Rate Schedule No. 52, Legacy Net-Metering Service, effective 31 December 2023, and the Solar Energy Purchase Option schedule · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to Entergy AR

What Entergy AR itself requires, as distinct from what the state rule requires. Read from its own published guidelines on the date shown.

30 September 2024 was the line
Systems whose interconnection agreement was submitted before that date keep one-to-one net metering until 1 June 2040. Everyone after it is on net energy billing at avoided cost.
That grandfathering runs to June 2040
If you are buying an Arkansas house with solar already on it, ask for the interconnection date in writing, and ask the utility whether the grandfathered terms carry over to you. A system that qualified before 30 September 2024 is worth substantially more than one connected today.
Net energy billing means the utility sets the credit
Act 278 lets utilities set bill credits from avoided costs, the expense they would incur generating or buying the power themselves, rather than from what they charge you.
Ask for the number, not the name of the program
"Net energy billing" tells you the mechanism, not the value. Get the current avoided cost figure in cents per kWh in writing before you sign.

From Entergy AR’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-05 · source

Entergy AR net metering questions

Does Entergy AR offer one for one net metering?
No. Exports are credited under net energy billing at a rate the utility sets from avoided costs rather than the retail rate. Systems whose interconnection agreement was submitted before 30 September 2024 keep one-to-one crediting to 1 June 2040.
What does Entergy AR pay for power sent back to the grid?
Avoided cost, since Act 278. Per the utility’s net energy billing tariff.
Do I need a battery with Entergy AR?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because Entergy AR does not credit exports one for one, the return has to come from using your own production rather than selling it, which after dark means storage and usually a larger array than a one for one utility would need. The other half is backup: panels alone shut off in an outage, so a battery is what keeps the house running in a storm. We do not refer panels-only systems in Entergy AR territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my Entergy AR bill?
Sign in at entergy-arkansas.com. Open My Account, then Billing. Open the latest bill and save the PDF. Or screenshot the summary page. If you cannot get to it, a rough guess at your average monthly amount is enough to start.
What is the catch with Entergy AR?
Ask for the current avoided cost credit in cents per kWh, and confirm in writing which side of the 30 September 2024 line your application falls on.