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Salt River Project net metering in Arizona

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 terms

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.

Month to month
Credited on the bill for the cycle in which the energy was exported.

Published terms · checked 2026-09-05 · source

Installers serving SRP 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 SRP 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 SRP bill

An average Arizona 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$163.19
$163.19
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 41626 kilowatt hours. A 1,075 kilowatt hour month against 1,375 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 300 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $163.19 to $0.00 at 15.18 cents per kilowatt hour.

Arizona average household use, 1,075 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 15.18¢ 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.

SRP requirementRequired

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.

What SRP 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
$30.00 a month for a house on service up to 225 amps; $40.00 above 225; $20.00 for an apartment or townhouse
How it is set
Every SRP residential solar plan carries the same tiered Monthly Service Charge, and its minimum bill is “The Monthly Service Charge.” The charge is $14.00 for billing and customer service plus $5.03 for the meter plus a distribution facilities charge that sets the tier: $20.00 for an apartment, condominium, townhouse or patio home on service up to 225 amps, $30.00 for any other home up to 225 amps, and $40.00 for any residence with more than 225 amps (effective with the November 2025 billing cycle). A main panel upgrade above 225 amps, which some solar and battery installations need, moves a house from $30 to $40 a month. On the Time-of-Use Export plan (E-13), energy at SRP’s published prices is 20.83 cents a kilowatt hour on summer weekday afternoons from 2 to 8 p.m. and 11.19 cents otherwise, 23.38 cents on-peak in July and August, and 14.25 or 10.41 cents in winter, and every kilowatt hour sent to the grid is credited at 3.45 cents as it is exported. SRP cut prices by 0.38 cents a kilowatt hour for the May to October 2026 billing cycles, returning to the published levels from November 2026. E-13 will be eliminated with the November 2029 billing cycle and its customers moved to E-28. The demand plans (E-27 and E-15) carry the same monthly service charge plus a charge on peak kilowatts.

Salt River Project, Standard Electric Price Plans (published 27 April 2026): E-13 Customer Generation Time-of-Use Export Price Plan, effective November 2025 billing cycle; E-15 Customer Generation Average Demand and E-27 Customer Generation price plans, Monthly Service Charge tables; temporary Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment decrease, May to October 2026 billing cycles · checked 2026-10-02 · source

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.