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Pacific Power net metering in Oregon

Southern and central Oregon and the coast, including Medford, Bend, Corvallis and Astoria. A PacifiCorp utility, with net metering under its Oregon Schedule 135.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
620K

What they credit you

Full retail per kWh, cleared each March to low-income aid

Published terms

Under Schedule 135, a month in which you send more to the grid than you take is billed the monthly charges, and the Net Metering Energy becomes a cumulative kilowatt hour credit “applied at the full retail rate for each rate component on the bill that uses kilowatt-hours as the billing determinant” on the next bill. On a time-of-use rate, credits offset usage in the same period first.

Month to month
Kilowatt hour credits accumulate from month to month through the March billing period.
Once a year
Unused credit accumulated through the March billing period each year is transferred to Pacific Power’s low-income assistance program at its average annual avoided cost rate.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-07 · source

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What this looks like on a Pacific Power bill

An average Oregon 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$143.94
$143.94
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 41680 kilowatt hours. A 882 kilowatt hour month against 1,128 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 246 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $143.94 to $0.00 at 16.32 cents per kilowatt hour.

Oregon average household use, 882 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 16.32¢ 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

Residential systems qualify up to 25 kW. Customers whose Schedule 136 volumetric incentive contract has expired go to Schedule 138 instead, not this schedule.

What Pacific Power 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
$18.06 a month for a house, once the two low-income charges are added
How it is set
Schedule 4 sets a Basic Charge of $14.00 a month for a single-family home and $8.00 for a multi-family home, and Pacific Power’s own price summary warns that the figure is not the whole fixed charge. Its footnote says the summary “does not include the effect of Low-Income Assistance Schedule 91 or Low Income Discount Cost Recovery Adjustment Schedule 92; for Schedule 4 customers add $1.42 plus $2.64 per meter per month”. So a house pays $18.06 before a kilowatt hour moves, and a flat in a multi-family building $12.06. A 1.5 percent Public Purpose Charge is then applied to the bill, the basic charge included. Energy above it is a combined 14.499 cents a kilowatt hour whether you use under or over 2,000, with a BPA Columbia River Benefits credit of 1.331 cents on the first 2,000 for eligible residential customers. The optional time-of-use adder is steep: 28.769 cents for an on-peak kilowatt hour against 10.709 cents off-peak, which rewards a household that uses its own solar output during the day and shifts load away from the evening peak. The same pattern appears at Pacific Power in Washington, where the low-income surcharge is a separate $3.79: in both states the number on the rate schedule understates the fixed part of the bill.

Pacific Power Oregon Price Summary, in effect as of 1 April 2026; Schedule 4 Residential, with Schedules 91 and 92 per footnote 2 and Schedule 290 Public Purpose Charge · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to Pacific Power

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

One for one on every per-kWh charge
OAR 860-039-0055(1) applies a month’s excess kilowatt hours to the next bill at the full retail rate for each rate component billed per kilowatt hour. The Basic Charge is still paid every month.
The year ends with the March bill
Unless you and the utility agree otherwise, the annual billing cycle ends with the March billing month, so credit built up over the summer is still available through the winter.
A leftover balance goes to low-income assistance
Unused credit at the end of the cycle is transferred to the utility’s low-income assistance program, valued at its average annual avoided cost rate. OAR 860-039-0060(2) says the customer may not elect to receive a credit or payment for it.
25 kW for a house
Both PGE’s Schedule 203 and Pacific Power’s Schedule 135 cover residential systems of 25 kW or less.
Neighboring meters can share
On request, with sixty days’ notice, the utility will aggregate the generating meter with other meters on the same or contiguous property served by the same primary feeder, in a rank order you choose.

From Pacific Power’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-07 · source

Pacific Power net metering questions

Does Pacific Power offer one for one net metering?
Yes. Under Schedule 135, a month in which you send more to the grid than you take is billed the monthly charges, and the Net Metering Energy becomes a cumulative kilowatt hour credit “applied at the full retail rate for each rate component on the bill that uses kilowatt-hours as the billing determinant” on the next bill. On a time-of-use rate, credits offset usage in the same period first. Kilowatt hour credits accumulate from month to month through the March billing period.
What does Pacific Power pay for power sent back to the grid?
Full retail per kWh, cleared each March to low-income aid. Unused credit accumulated through the March billing period each year is transferred to Pacific Power’s low-income assistance program at its average annual avoided cost rate.
Do I need a battery with Pacific Power?
Not for the economics. Pacific Power 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 Pacific Power bill?
Sign in at pacificpower.net. 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 Pacific Power?
Residential systems qualify up to 25 kW. Customers whose Schedule 136 volumetric incentive contract has expired go to Schedule 138 instead, not this schedule.