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Rocky Mountain Power net metering in Utah

Most of Utah, including Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden and St George. A PacifiCorp utility, and the only investor owned electric utility of scale in the state.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
1.0M

What they credit you

4.855 cents in summer, 4.033 in winter; unused credit expires in March

Published terms

Under Schedule 137, Net Billing Service, every exported kWh is credited at 4.855 cents from June to September and 4.033 cents from October to May (effective 1 March 2026). The dollar credit offsets the power and energy charges, not the customer charge.

Month to month
Credit carries from month to month within the annual period that ends with the March meter reading.
Once a year
At the March meter reading, any unused credit expires without payment.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Installers serving Rocky Mountain Power 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 Rocky Mountain Power territory, 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 Rocky Mountain Power bill

An average Utah 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$103.48
$103.48
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 41710 kilowatt hours. A 774 kilowatt hour month against 990 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 216 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $103.48 to $0.00 at 13.37 cents per kilowatt hour.

Utah average household use, 774 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 13.37¢ 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.

Rocky Mountain Power requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in Rocky Mountain Power territory.

Rocky Mountain Power 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 Rocky Mountain Power 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. Utah pays about four to five cents for an exported kilowatt hour against a much higher retail rate, so a system here is sized against what the house can use during daylight, not against annual consumption. Rocky Mountain Power sets its own limits. Ask Rocky Mountain Power 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 Rocky Mountain Power 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

Exported energy earns less than half of what grid energy costs on Schedule 1, and a surplus left at the end of March is lost. Size to what the house uses during daylight.

What Rocky Mountain 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
$12.00 a month for a house, $7.00 in a multi-family home
How it is set
Schedule 1 prices the Customer Charge by dwelling type and by phase, four figures rather than one: a single-family home on single phase pays $12.00 per customer, on three phase $19.50; a multi-family home on single phase pays $7.00, on three phase $14.50. Energy on top runs 9.8332 cents a kilowatt hour for the first 400 kWh from June through September and 12.5263 cents above that, against 8.7020 and 11.0852 cents from October through May. What makes the charge a floor for a solar household is Schedule 137, the net billing service every new Utah solar customer is on. Its billing clause is unambiguous: “Regardless of whether the Customer exports net generation during the month, the Customer shall be billed the minimum monthly amount from the applicable standard service tariff”, and “all other charges shall be calculated in accordance with the Customer’s applicable standard service tariff”. So exporting more never removes it, and nothing extra is levied for generating either — a net billing customer pays the same Schedule 1 charge as the neighbor without panels. Schedule 137 caps a residential facility at 25 kilowatts.

Electric Service Schedule No. 1, Residential Service, P.S.C.U. No. 52, Third Revision of Sheet No. 1.2, filed 5 August 2026 and effective 10 August 2026 by order of the Public Service Commission of Utah in Docket 26-035-T08; billing regardless of export at Schedule 137, Net Billing Service · checked 2026-09-30 · source

Applying to Rocky Mountain Power

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

Three schedules, and only one is open
Schedule 135, net metering, is closed. Schedule 136, the Transition Program, closed on 31 October 2020. New customers take Schedule 137, Net Billing Service. Ask which schedule a quote assumes.
What Schedule 137 pays
4.855 cents per kWh in summer, June through September, and 4.033 cents in winter, October through May, for every exported kilowatt hour (First Revision of Sheet No. 137.3, effective 1 March 2026). The credit is in dollars and comes off the power and energy charges only.
Unused credit expires every March
Credit carries from month to month only until the annual period ends with the regularly scheduled March meter reading. Whatever is left then “shall expire”: there is no payout. A summer surplus has to be used up over the winter.
Systems from before November 2017 keep net metering until 2036
Customers who filed an interconnection agreement before 15 November 2017 are grandfathered on Schedule 135 until 1 January 2036. If you are buying a Utah house with older solar on it, ask for the interconnection date in writing. It is worth real money and it has an expiry.
The gap between what you are paid and what you pay is the whole design
Around four to five cents out against a much higher retail rate in means the return comes from using your own production rather than selling it. That is a battery and a load-shifting habit, not a bigger array.

From Rocky Mountain Power’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Rocky Mountain Power net metering questions

Does Rocky Mountain Power offer one for one net metering?
No. Under Schedule 137, Net Billing Service, every exported kWh is credited at 4.855 cents from June to September and 4.033 cents from October to May (effective 1 March 2026). The dollar credit offsets the power and energy charges, not the customer charge.
What does Rocky Mountain Power pay for power sent back to the grid?
4.855 cents in summer, 4.033 in winter; unused credit expires in March. At the March meter reading, any unused credit expires without payment.
Do I need a battery with Rocky Mountain Power?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because Rocky Mountain Power 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 Rocky Mountain Power territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my Rocky Mountain Power bill?
Sign in at rockymountainpower.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 Rocky Mountain Power?
Exported energy earns less than half of what grid energy costs on Schedule 1, and a surplus left at the end of March is lost. Size to what the house uses during daylight.