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Oklahoma Gas and Electric net metering in Oklahoma

Central and western Oklahoma, including Oklahoma City, Norman and Enid. The largest utility in the state. Its export credit is a market price recalculated every billing period, not a fixed rate.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
900K

What they credit you

Surplus at a 30-day market average, on-peak or off-peak

Published terms

Under the Net Energy Billing Option you take a time-of-use rate and generation offsets usage within the month. A month’s surplus is credited or paid in dollars at OG&E’s Avoided Energy Cost: the 30-day rolling average of Southwest Power Pool day-ahead prices at OG&E’s load node, on-peak (2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, June to September) or off-peak.

Month to month
Dollar credits carry to later bills; after 24 months or once they pass $100, you or OG&E can ask for a one-time payment, and any balance is paid when you leave.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Installers serving OG&E 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 OG&E 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 OG&E bill

An average Oklahoma 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$154.62
$154.62
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 41625 kilowatt hours. A 1,079 kilowatt hour month against 1,380 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 301 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $154.62 to $0.00 at 14.33 cents per kilowatt hour.

Oklahoma average household use, 1,079 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 14.33¢ 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.

OG&E requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in OG&E territory.

OG&E 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 OG&E 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. Oklahoma allows systems up to 300 kW but pays avoided cost for anything you export, against some of the cheapest retail electricity in the country. Both point at a system sized to the load in the house rather than to the roof. OG&E sets its own limits. Ask OG&E 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 OG&E 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

Only the kWh portion of the bill is affected: customer, meter, rider and franchise charges are always billed. Systems must be no larger than 125% of your peak load; a larger one is moved to the QF purchase tariff.

What OG&E 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
$13.00 a month, on either schedule
How it is set
Standard Pricing Schedule R-1 sets a “Customer Charge: $13.00 per month” and then settles the floor plainly: “MINIMUM BILL: The minimum monthly bill shall be the Customer Charge.” It adds one caveat worth knowing, that the Company “shall specify a larger minimum monthly bill” under its Allowable Expenditure Formula where the investment needs justifying, so an unusual service can sit above $13.00. The figure survives going solar, which is not true everywhere: OG&E’s Net Energy Billing Option moves you onto a time-of-use schedule, and R-TOU carries the same $13.00 customer charge and the same minimum clause. What changes underneath is the price of a kilowatt hour, sharply. R-1 is a flat 8.00 cents through the summer and 5.80 cents through the winter; on R-TOU the on-peak price is 27.50 cents a kilowatt hour from 2pm to 7pm on summer weekdays. A household that generates at noon and cooks at six has moved onto a rate where the hours it buys in are the expensive ones. NEBO also defines what your credit can and cannot reach, and the list is long: a NEBO customer’s total monthly billing “shall not be less than applicable franchise fees; local, state, or federal income taxes; applicable tariff or rider charges; monthly customer charges; meter charges”, and the tariff says in terms that “only the kilowatt-hour (kWh) portion” of the bill is affected. Excess generation is credited or paid at OG&E’s Avoided Energy Cost, and you may not take NEBO alongside any other such tariff.

Standard Pricing Schedule R-1, Residential Service, 5th Revised Sheet No. 3.00, issued 26 November 2024, rates authorized by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission effective 1 January 2025, Order 745601, Cause PUD 2023-000087; time-of-use figures at R-TOU, 6th Revised Sheet No. 3.30; solar billing at NEBO, Net Energy Billing Option, 7th Revised Sheet No. 70.10 · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to OG&E

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

The size limit is generous and the price is not
OG&E and PSO accept systems up to 300 kW, but no larger than 125% of your peak demand, and credit a month’s surplus at an avoided energy cost rather than the retail rate.
There is no fixed export price to quote
The credit is recalculated from Southwest Power Pool day-ahead prices for each billing period, separately for on-peak hours (2 to 7 p.m. on summer weekdays) and off-peak. A single cents figure in a quote is a past month, not a contract term.
Solar moves you onto time-of-use
Both utilities require NEBO customers to take a time-of-use rate, where summer weekday afternoons are priced several times the off-peak rate. That changes the value of every kilowatt hour you draw, not only the ones you export.
Cheap retail power cuts both ways
Oklahoma’s average residential price was 14.33 cents in June 2026 on EIA’s figures, among the ten lowest of any state, so the bill a system is offsetting is smaller to begin with.
The arrangement has been challenged before
OG&E has petitioned the Commission in previous rate cases to reduce net metering compensation, arguing cost shift. As of early 2026 the current arrangement stands. Ask what happens to existing customers if it changes.

From OG&E’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-02 · source

OG&E net metering questions

Does OG&E offer one for one net metering?
No. Under the Net Energy Billing Option you take a time-of-use rate and generation offsets usage within the month. A month’s surplus is credited or paid in dollars at OG&E’s Avoided Energy Cost: the 30-day rolling average of Southwest Power Pool day-ahead prices at OG&E’s load node, on-peak (2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, June to September) or off-peak.
What does OG&E pay for power sent back to the grid?
Surplus at a 30-day market average, on-peak or off-peak. Dollar credits carry to later bills; after 24 months or once they pass $100, you or OG&E can ask for a one-time payment, and any balance is paid when you leave.
Do I need a battery with OG&E?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because OG&E 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 OG&E territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my OG&E bill?
Sign in at oge.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 OG&E?
Only the kWh portion of the bill is affected: customer, meter, rider and franchise charges are always billed. Systems must be no larger than 125% of your peak load; a larger one is moved to the QF purchase tariff.