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Dominion Energy North Carolina net metering in North Carolina

The northeastern counties, including Elizabeth City, Roanoke Rapids and parts of the Albemarle. A small North Carolina footprint of a utility whose main business is in Virginia, and the one North Carolina company that never moved onto the Duke riders. It still runs plain retail net metering.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
125K

What they credit you

Full retail, wiped every June

Published terms

Dominion credits exported kilowatt hours at what you would have paid for the next one, and carries any excess forward against later bills. On 1 June each year whatever is left is granted to the company at no charge, with no cash value and no payout.

Month to month
Month to month within the year, then back to zero at the start of the summer billing season on 1 June.
Once a year
Nothing is ever bought back. Whatever credit is left on 1 June is granted to the company at no charge, and the tariff states it has no cash value and cannot be converted to cash.

Published terms · checked 2026-09-20 · source

Installers serving Dominion NC 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 Dominion NC 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 Dominion NC bill

An average North Carolina 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$149.61
$149.61
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 41643 kilowatt hours. A 1,015 kilowatt hour month against 1,298 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 283 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $149.61 to $0.00 at 14.74 cents per kilowatt hour.

North Carolina average household use, 1,015 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 14.74¢ 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.

What your installer should be telling you

Size the system to a twelve month bill rather than to a sunny month, because a spring surplus you cannot use by 1 June is simply gone. Ask Dominion to confirm in writing which rate schedule you will be on, because on Schedule 1 you assign your renewable energy credits to the company and only Schedule 1P lets you keep them.

What Dominion NC 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
$14.40 a month, and the tariff says so in those words
How it is set
Schedule 1 sets the Basic Customer Charge at $14.40 per billing month, with energy at 12.1533 cents per kWh from June to September and 10.5123 cents from October to May. Section II.E then says plainly: "The minimum charge shall be the Basic Customer Charge in II.A. above." There is no $22 or $28 minimum bill here and no charge on your nameplate, because Dominion is not on the Duke riders. Dominion’s own net metering page puts the same point in customer language: "even if a credit is issued, the customer will still receive a bill each month with basic monthly charges."

Schedule 1 Residential Service, Electric-North Carolina, Docket No. E-22 Sub 694, effective 1 February 2025 · checked 2026-09-20 · source

Applying to Dominion NC

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

Dominion is not on the Duke riders
Dominion Energy North Carolina runs its own net metering under Section XXV of its North Carolina Terms and Conditions, Docket E-22 Sub 694. There is no Rider RSC, no Rider NMB, no $22 or $28 minimum bill and no monthly charge on your nameplate. Nothing you read about Duke’s riders applies to your bill.
Your exports are worth the retail rate
Dominion: the energy you produce "can be valued at the amount you would pay for your next kilowatt-hour", and "any excess energy returned to the grid is recorded as a credit and used to offset future electric energy delivered to the home or business". These are kilowatt hour credits against what you buy, not a cash payment.
Everything left over is wiped at the start of June
Terms and Conditions XXV.D.1: credit carried forward "shall be granted to Company at no charge and the credit balance reset to zero at the beginning of each summer billing season". On Schedule 1 the summer season is June through September, so the reset is 1 June. The tariff adds that "in no case will any credit balance have any cash value or be convertible to cash".
On the standard rate you hand over your renewable energy credits
Customers on Schedule 1P, 5P or 6P "shall retain ownership of all renewable energy credits (RECs) associated with its electric generation". Anyone on another schedule "shall assign any RECs associated with all electric generation by the Renewable Energy Facility to Company as part of the net metering arrangement". Schedule 1, the standard residential rate almost everyone is on, is in the second group. Duke lets its customers keep theirs.
One megawatt, not twenty kilowatts
Dominion’s size test is a facility with "an alternating current capacity of not more than one megawatt". The 20 kW figure on its website is the line between two different interconnection request forms, not a cap on your system.
Credits do not follow you out
Credits are "nontransferable". If you leave net metering, what is left is applied to your final bill and anything still remaining "will be forfeited". The contract runs for not less than one year.

From Dominion NC’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-20 · source

Dominion NC net metering questions

Does Dominion NC offer one for one net metering?
Yes. Dominion credits exported kilowatt hours at what you would have paid for the next one, and carries any excess forward against later bills. On 1 June each year whatever is left is granted to the company at no charge, with no cash value and no payout. Month to month within the year, then back to zero at the start of the summer billing season on 1 June.
What does Dominion NC pay for power sent back to the grid?
Full retail, wiped every June. Nothing is ever bought back. Whatever credit is left on 1 June is granted to the company at no charge, and the tariff states it has no cash value and cannot be converted to cash.
Do I need a battery with Dominion NC?
Not for the economics. Dominion NC credits exports at the retail rate, so power you send out during the day comes back at the same value after dark without storage. A battery is still worth considering for outages during hurricane season, but it is an upgrade here rather than a requirement.
How do I find my Dominion NC bill?
Sign in at dominionenergy.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 Dominion NC?
Size the system to a twelve month bill rather than to a sunny month, because a spring surplus you cannot use by 1 June is simply gone. Ask Dominion to confirm in writing which rate schedule you will be on, because on Schedule 1 you assign your renewable energy credits to the company and only Schedule 1P lets you keep them.