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Rockland Electric net metering in New Jersey

A small area of northern Bergen, Passaic and Sussex counties. The New Jersey arm of Orange and Rockland, which is itself part of Con Edison. On Basic Generation Service, the year-end surplus is paid as a credit voucher against later bills rather than as cash.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
75K

What they credit you

Full retail, settled once a year at wholesale

Published terms

A month’s surplus is credited against the next bill at the full retail rate and accumulates through a twelve-month annualized period. Whatever is left when it ends is paid at the average PJM locational marginal price for the utility’s zone, a wholesale price. A system may not be larger than what you were supplied over a historical twelve months.

Month to month
Credits accumulate month to month until your annualized period ends.
Once a year
At the end of the annualized period you choose, at the average locational marginal price for the utility’s zone.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-03 · source

Installers serving Rockland Electric 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 Rockland Electric 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 Rockland Electric bill

An average New Jersey 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$165.17
$165.17
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 41741 kilowatt hours. A 662 kilowatt hour month against 847 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 185 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $165.17 to $0.00 at 24.95 cents per kilowatt hour.

New Jersey average household use, 662 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 24.95¢ 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

You get one opportunity to choose the billing month your annualized period starts; if you never choose, it starts when the system is switched on, and switching supplier ends it early. Size to your own use: the Board is studying a successor structure that has not been enacted.

What Rockland Electric 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
$6.00 a month
How it is set
Service Classification No. 1 sets a Customer Charge of $6.00 a month, identical in summer and winter, and the schedule sets no separate monthly minimum above it — the "Minimum Charge Each Contract Each Location" in the special provisions governs short term service and line extension agreements, not an ordinary monthly bill. What your panels offset is the distribution charge: 6.886 cents a kilowatt hour on the first 600, rising to 8.671 cents above 600 from June through September, and 6.886 cents throughout from October through May. Set against that is a Distribution Charge Adjustment, printed in the tariff as a credit of 1.416 cents on the first 600 kilowatt hours and 1.783 cents above 600 in summer. Read that one carefully before you build it into a payback estimate: the same leaf says the Company may "modify or eliminate the monthly adjustments in order to avoid the surcharge" at the end of the twelve month period. It is a discount that can be withdrawn, not part of the rate.

Service Classification No. 1, Residential Service, B.P.U. No. 3 Electricity, 18th Revised Leaf No. 82, effective 1 July 2026, Docket ER25060374 · checked 2026-09-29 · source

Applying to Rockland Electric

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

One for one, at retail, month to month
Exported kilowatt hours offset consumption at the full retail rate, and any surplus rolls forward to the next month rather than being cashed out immediately.
The annual true up is where the value drops
Whatever credit is left at the end of your annualized period is paid at the avoided cost of wholesale power, which the rule defines as the average PJM locational marginal price in your utility’s transmission zone. Credits are worth retail while you can use them and wholesale once you cannot, which is the whole argument for sizing to your own usage.
You choose when your year ends, once
The twelve-month annualized period starts on a billing month you select, and you get one opportunity to select it. If you never do, it starts with the first full billing period after the system is switched on. Switching electricity supplier ends the period early, as if the year were over.
There is a statewide trigger, and it is discretionary
N.J.S.A. 48:3-87 lets the Board of Public Utilities authorize suppliers to stop offering net metering to new customers once statewide net metered capacity reaches 5.8% of total annual kilowatt hours sold. The Board may act at that point; it is not required to.
A successor is being studied, and nothing is enacted
The Board has been examining a successor structure including value of solar export rates, possible grid access charges and storage. As of now the current one for one crediting is unchanged. Ask what your contract says happens if it changes.
Your own past usage is the ceiling
N.J.A.C. 14:8-4.3 limits a system to the electricity you were supplied over a historical twelve-month period you select, so for a house the limits are that and your roof. Anything exported beyond your own use is settled at a wholesale price once a year.
The certificates are yours unless a contract says otherwise
Under the same rule a net metered customer owns the renewable attributes of what the system generates, and can sell them or use them to apply for certificates, unless a contract expressly assigns them. A lease or a power purchase agreement may, so read that clause.

From Rockland Electric’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-03 · source

Rockland Electric net metering questions

Does Rockland Electric offer one for one net metering?
Yes. A month’s surplus is credited against the next bill at the full retail rate and accumulates through a twelve-month annualized period. Whatever is left when it ends is paid at the average PJM locational marginal price for the utility’s zone, a wholesale price. A system may not be larger than what you were supplied over a historical twelve months. Credits accumulate month to month until your annualized period ends.
What does Rockland Electric pay for power sent back to the grid?
Full retail, settled once a year at wholesale. At the end of the annualized period you choose, at the average locational marginal price for the utility’s zone.
Do I need a battery with Rockland Electric?
Not for the economics. Rockland Electric 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 Rockland Electric bill?
Sign in at oru.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 Rockland Electric?
You get one opportunity to choose the billing month your annualized period starts; if you never choose, it starts when the system is switched on, and switching supplier ends it early. Size to your own use: the Board is studying a successor structure that has not been enacted.