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Public Service Company of Oklahoma net metering in Oklahoma

Eastern and southwestern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, Lawton and McAlester. An American Electric Power company under the same Commission rules but its own avoided cost figure.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
570K

What they credit you

Surplus at the month’s market average; riders on total use

Published terms

Under PSO’s Net Energy Billing Option you take a time-of-day rate, and a month’s surplus is credited or paid in dollars at PSO’s Avoided Energy Cost: the month’s average Southwest Power Pool day-ahead price at PSO’s node, on-peak (2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, June to October) or off-peak.

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

Published terms · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Installers serving PSO 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 PSO 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 PSO 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.

PSO requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in PSO territory.

PSO 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 PSO 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. PSO sets its own limits. Ask PSO 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 PSO 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 fuel rider is billed on net kWh, but the tariff bills other rider charges on the total kWh PSO delivers, so solar does not reduce them. A separate production meter is required, and systems must be no larger than 125% of your annual peak demand.

What PSO 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
$17.00 a month
How it is set
Schedule RS sets a “Base Service Charge $17.00” and then makes it the floor: “The Minimum Monthly Bill is the Base Service Charge of $17.00 per residential unit. The minimum bill shall be adjusted according to Adjustments to Billing.” The second sentence means the riders in the adjustments section can move the minimum itself, not only the energy charge, so the true floor sits a little away from $17.00 in either direction. Where one meter serves several living quarters, the charge and every energy step are multiplied by the number of units, which is the “per residential unit” in that clause. Energy above the floor is tiered by season. In the on-peak season it is 8.8792 cents a kilowatt hour for the first 1,350 and 11.4186 cents above, so the most expensive units of the year are the summer ones a solar array is best placed to remove; off-peak it starts at 7.9241 cents. The sheet is dated 30 January 2025 but is the one PSO publishes in its September 2026 complete tariff package, so it is current. A 2026 rate review is open; if the Corporation Commission grants it, this figure will move.

Schedule RS, Residential Service, rate codes 015 and 038, 9th Revised Sheet Nos. 3-1 and 3-2, effective 30 January 2025 under OCC Order 746624, Cause PUD 2023-000086; as carried in PSO’s complete tariff package of September 2026 · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to PSO

What PSO 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 PSO’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-02 · source

PSO net metering questions

Does PSO offer one for one net metering?
No. Under PSO’s Net Energy Billing Option you take a time-of-day rate, and a month’s surplus is credited or paid in dollars at PSO’s Avoided Energy Cost: the month’s average Southwest Power Pool day-ahead price at PSO’s node, on-peak (2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, June to October) or off-peak.
What does PSO pay for power sent back to the grid?
Surplus at the month’s market average; riders on total use. Dollar credits carry to later bills; after 24 months or once they pass $100, you or PSO can ask for a one-time payment, and any balance is paid when you leave.
Do I need a battery with PSO?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because PSO 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 PSO territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my PSO bill?
Sign in at psoklahoma.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 PSO?
The fuel rider is billed on net kWh, but the tariff bills other rider charges on the total kWh PSO delivers, so solar does not reduce them. A separate production meter is required, and systems must be no larger than 125% of your annual peak demand.