What does Rocky Mountain Power pay for power sent back to the grid?

About 4 to 5 cents, by season. Credits are applied against the bill.

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.

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Rocky Mountain Power

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

About 4 to 5 cents, by season

Published terms

Under Schedule 137, Net Billing Service, exports are bought at a published export credit rate reported at 4.855 cents per kWh in summer and 4.033 cents in winter as of 1 March 2026.

Month to month: Credits are applied against the bill.

Published terms · checked 2026-09-05 · source

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

These figures come from reporting on the Commission’s export credit proceeding rather than from a schedule we have read. Ask Rocky Mountain Power for the current Schedule 137 rates in writing.

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, as of 1 March 2026: 4.855 cents per kWh in summer, June through September, and 4.033 cents in winter, October through May. Reported figures; confirm the current schedule with the company before you sign.
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 2026-09-05 · source