Salt River Project
Central Arizona, including much of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Scottsdale and Gilbert. Not regulated by the Corporation Commission. SRP is a political subdivision with an elected board, which sets its own prices, so nothing the Commission decides about APS applies here.
- Type
- Public power district
- Accounts
- 1.1M
What they credit you
3.45 cents, set by an elected board
Published termsSRP export price plans credit excess generation at a fixed 3.45 cents per kWh, applied instantly as power leaves the meter rather than netted against what you use later.
- Month to month
- Credited on the bill for the cycle in which the energy was exported.
Published terms · checked 2026-09-05 · source
Battery backup is mandatory
in SRP territory.
SRP 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 SRP 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. Arizona sets no simple kilowatt limit: APS’s own rider requires only that the system be on site, behind the billing meter, and serving the customer’s load, with any size then subject to the state interconnection requirements. SRP sets its own limits. Ask SRP 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 SRP 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
SRP is not rate regulated by the Corporation Commission. Its board can change the export rate, and has already voted to retire the Time-of-Use Export plan from the November 2029 billing cycle.
Applying to SRP
What SRP itself requires, as distinct from what the state rule requires. Read from its own published guidelines on the date shown.
- What an exported kilowatt hour is worth
- SRP credits export plans at a fixed 3.45 cents per kWh, stated on both its comparison page and the Time-of-Use Export plan page. Widely syndicated solar sites currently quote 1.87 cents for SRP; that is not what SRP publishes.
- Export is instantaneous, and that is the design
- "Any excess energy you generate will be instantly exported by SRP and credited to your bill." SRP says outright that it is therefore worth shifting your usage into the middle of the day.
- The plan you are quoted may be closing
- SRP’s board voted on 27 February 2025 to retire several price plans. The Time-of-Use Export Price Plan is discontinued as of the November 2029 billing cycle. Ask what happens to your plan at that point before you size a system around it.
- Demand plans are a different animal entirely
- SRP’s other solar option is a demand plan, which adds a monthly charge based on your single highest usage peak rather than your total. It is not a small difference in the arithmetic and it is worth understanding before choosing.
- Prices are temporarily down, and will go back up
- SRP has cut prices by $0.0038 per kWh for the May to October 2026 billing cycles because gas and market power costs came in low. Its own pages say prices return to the published levels with the November 2026 cycle.
- Nobody outside SRP sets these numbers
- An elected board does. There is no Corporation Commission docket to read, no rate case to intervene in, and no regulator to appeal to. That cuts both ways, and it is the single most important structural fact about being an SRP customer with solar.
From SRP’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-05 · source
SRP net metering questions
- Does SRP offer one for one net metering?
- No. SRP export price plans credit excess generation at a fixed 3.45 cents per kWh, applied instantly as power leaves the meter rather than netted against what you use later.
- What does SRP pay for power sent back to the grid?
- 3.45 cents, set by an elected board. Credited on the bill for the cycle in which the energy was exported.
- Do I need a battery with SRP?
- Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because SRP 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 SRP territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
- How do I find my SRP bill?
- Sign in at srpnet.com. Open My Account, then Bill history. 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 SRP?
- SRP is not rate regulated by the Corporation Commission. Its board can change the export rate, and has already voted to retire the Time-of-Use Export plan from the November 2029 billing cycle.
Installers serving SRP customers
Pick one. Only the company you choose receives your details, and only that company calls you.
These are real companies operating in SRP territory, 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.