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GreyStone Power net metering in Georgia

West metro Atlanta, including Douglas, Paulding, Carroll, Cobb and Fulton counties.

Type
Cooperative
Accounts
135K

What they credit you

2.855 cents, and nothing is netted

Published terms

Schedule DG-2 buys every exported kilowatt hour at 2.855 cents and bills every imported one at the ordinary retail rate, with no netting between them. GreyStone’s residential energy runs from 4.60 to 10.58 cents, so power you use yourself is worth up to four times power you export.

Published terms · checked 2026-09-21 · source

Installers serving GreyStone 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 GreyStone 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 GreyStone bill

An average Georgia 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$175.71
$175.71
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 1,074 kilowatt hour month against 1,374 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 300 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $175.71 to $0.00 at 16.36 cents per kilowatt hour.

Georgia average household use, 1,074 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 16.36¢ 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.

GreyStone requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in GreyStone territory.

GreyStone 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 GreyStone 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. Georgia’s Distributed Generation Act defines an eligible residential system as 10 kW or less, and Georgia Power applies that limit to the inverter nameplate at the service point. Some cooperatives allow more: Walton EMC sets its residential limit at 50 kW. GreyStone sets its own limits. Ask GreyStone 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 GreyStone 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

The schedule dates from October 2021 and reserves the right to change the rate at any time at the co-op’s sole discretion, so ask GreyStone to confirm the current purchase rate in writing. Ask at the same time for the Facilities Charge and the monthly administrative charge in dollars, because DG-2 allows both and prices neither.

What GreyStone 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
$25.00 a month
How it is set
Rate 1 Schedule RS sets a Service Charge of $25.00 a month in both seasons, and defines the minimum monthly charge as that service charge plus energy charges, Environmental Compliance Cost Recovery, the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment, the Wallet Watch Credit, the Demand Side Management Cost Adjustment, and regulatory fees and taxes. Energy is 4.60 cents for the first 500 kWh in either season, then 7.20 and 6.45 cents in winter, or 9.00 and 10.58 cents in summer. These are among the lowest retail rates in the state, which also means solar has less to save you here than almost anywhere else. What the residential schedule does not tell you is that going solar brings a second schedule with it. Schedule DG-2, Distributed Generation Service, says a member with a generating facility “may pay a monthly” facilities charge and a “monthly administrative charge to recover incremental administrative expenses (if any)”, and it puts a dollar figure on neither. The facilities charge is defined as a percentage factor applied to the cost of the interconnection plant, covering operations, maintenance, administration, taxes, depreciation and cost of capital, and the schedule adds that it “may be modified at any time by the Cooperative”. So the real floor for a GreyStone solar member is $25.00 plus an amount only GreyStone can tell you. Get it in writing before you sign. DG-2 does state what you are paid: $0.02855 a kilowatt hour, the cooperative’s estimated average annual avoided cost, and that rate “may be adjusted at any time in the sole discretion of the Cooperative”. Note also the Georgia cap — GreyStone is only obliged to buy from distributed generation first come, first served until the total reaches 0.2 percent of its previous year’s peak demand.

Rate 1 Schedule RS, Residential Service, effective billing rendered 1 June 2021 and still the schedule GreyStone publishes, with the $25.00 confirmed on its live rates page 30 September 2026; solar charges and purchase rate at Schedule DG-2, Distributed Generation Service, effective billing rendered 1 October 2021 · checked 2026-09-21 · source

Applying to GreyStone

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

Nothing is netted here. Two meters, two prices
DG-2: "the total energy delivered to the member shall be billed under the regular retail rate applicable to the member, and the total energy received from the member shall be purchased by the Cooperative at the Purchase Rate." Every kilowatt hour you use is bought at retail and every kilowatt hour you send back is sold at 2.855 cents, with no offsetting in between. Self consumption is the only thing worth full value.
The published purchase rate is 2.855 cents
DG-2 sets the rate as the co-op’s "estimated average annual avoided cost of energy" and states it as "$.02855 per kWh". GreyStone’s own residential rate runs from 4.60 cents to 10.58 cents depending on season and block.
That figure dates from 2021 and can move without notice
The schedule is effective for billing rendered 1 October 2021 and says "the rates as quoted herein may be adjusted at any time in the sole discretion of the Cooperative". Ask for the current number in writing rather than assuming the published one is live.
There are two charges the schedule allows but does not price
A Facilities Charge, calculated as a percentage of the cost of every transformer, protective device and meter GreyStone has to install for you, and a monthly administrative charge. Both are described in DG-2 and neither carries a figure. They are the two lines most likely to be missing from a first quote.
The 0.2 percent ceiling applies here too
GreyStone is "only required to purchase energy as specified in Code Section 46-3-55 from Distributed Generation Facilities on a first-come, first-served basis until the aggregate capacity rating of all Distributed Generation Facilities equals 0.2 percent of the Cooperative’s annual peak demand in the previous year."

From GreyStone’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-21 · source

GreyStone net metering questions

Does GreyStone offer one for one net metering?
No. Schedule DG-2 buys every exported kilowatt hour at 2.855 cents and bills every imported one at the ordinary retail rate, with no netting between them. GreyStone’s residential energy runs from 4.60 to 10.58 cents, so power you use yourself is worth up to four times power you export.
What does GreyStone pay for power sent back to the grid?
2.855 cents, and nothing is netted.
Do I need a battery with GreyStone?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because GreyStone 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 GreyStone territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my GreyStone bill?
Sign in at greystonepower.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 GreyStone?
The schedule dates from October 2021 and reserves the right to change the rate at any time at the co-op’s sole discretion, so ask GreyStone to confirm the current purchase rate in writing. Ask at the same time for the Facilities Charge and the monthly administrative charge in dollars, because DG-2 allows both and prices neither.