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Snohomish County PUD net metering in Washington

Snohomish County and Camano Island, including Everett. A public utility district governed by an elected commission.

Type
Municipal
Accounts
380K

What they credit you

One for one in kWh, zeroed each 31 March

Published terms

Schedule 200 reduces only the kilowatt hours on which the energy charge is calculated. A billing period’s excess generation becomes a credit on future bills at the price of your own rate schedule; base, demand and minimum charges are paid in full.

Month to month
Credits apply to future bills through the program year, 1 April to 31 March.
Once a year
Any energy balance in your favor on 31 March is zeroed out, with no credit to you.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-07 · source

Installers serving Snohomish PUD customers

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What this looks like on a Snohomish PUD bill

An average Washington 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$142.39
$142.39
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 41660 kilowatt hours. A 955 kilowatt hour month against 1,221 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 266 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $142.39 to $0.00 at 14.91 cents per kilowatt hour.

Washington average household use, 955 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 14.91¢ 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

Schedule 200 stays open until the Board adopts a successor rate, no sooner than 30 June 2029 or 58.204 MW of net metered capacity. A separate Schedule 201, Net Billing (effective 1 April 2026), instead bills every kWh you draw and pays a cents-per-kWh credit for every kWh you export: for solar-only systems 4.605 cents in April, May and October 2026, 3.956 cents June to September and 4.381 cents from November 2026 to March 2027. Ask the PUD which schedule your system goes on.

What Snohomish PUD 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
$0.80 a day for a typical house, about $24.33 a month
How it is set
Schedule 7 has no single base charge. It sets one per day by the size of your service, unchanged since 1 April 2025: Small (multifamily units, or a panel of 100 amps or less) $0.49, about $14.90 a month; Medium (panels up to 200 amps, and services connected before 1 April 2022 that are not Small) $0.80, about $24.33; Large (201 to 400 amps) $1.14, about $34.68; and Extra Large (over 400 amps) $1.86, about $56.58. The minimum daily charge was eliminated in April 2024, so there is no separate minimum bill. Energy is a flat 10.613 cents a kilowatt hour since 1 April 2026; the chart on the PUD’s rates page still shows the earlier 10.263 cents. Under the Net Metering Program (Schedule 200), production reduces only the kilowatt hours used to calculate the energy charge, and you remain “subject to all other charges”, so the daily base charge is paid in full. Excess carries forward in kilowatt hours, and any balance left on 31 March, the end of the PUD’s program year, is zeroed out with no payment. The program stays open until a successor rate takes effect, no sooner than 30 June 2029 or when participating capacity passes 58.2 MW. A separate Net Billing schedule (201) instead pays 3.83 to 4.61 cents a kilowatt hour for solar exports in 2026.

Snohomish County PUD No. 1 Electric Rates: Schedule 7, Residential Service (base charges effective 1 April 2025, energy charge effective 1 April 2026); Schedule 200, Net Metering Program (effective 3 December 2019, Res. No. 5931); Schedule 201, Net Billing (effective 1 April 2026, Res. No. 6260) · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to Snohomish PUD

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

One for one, in kilowatt hours
Under RCW 80.60.030(3), when the system sends more than the house takes in a billing period, you pay the customer charges and the excess kilowatt hours are credited on the next bill, to offset what you use later.
On 31 March the leftover is granted to the utility
RCW 80.60.030(5): any remaining unused kilowatt hour credits accumulated during the previous year "shall be granted to the electric utility, without any compensation to the customer-generator".
Net metering has an end date
RCW 80.60.020(1)(a) requires a utility to offer net metering only until the earlier of 30 June 2029 or the date net metered capacity reaches 4% of its 1996 peak demand. After that, each utility may adopt its own tariff for new customers.
100 kW, and one extra meter
A net metering system may be up to 100 kW AC. On request, credits can be shared with one additional meter on the same or a contiguous parcel, billed to the same customer.
The rule reaches public utility districts too
Chapter 80.60 RCW applies to the public utility districts and city light departments as well as the investor owned utilities.

From Snohomish PUD’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-07 · source

Snohomish PUD net metering questions

Does Snohomish PUD offer one for one net metering?
Yes. Schedule 200 reduces only the kilowatt hours on which the energy charge is calculated. A billing period’s excess generation becomes a credit on future bills at the price of your own rate schedule; base, demand and minimum charges are paid in full. Credits apply to future bills through the program year, 1 April to 31 March.
What does Snohomish PUD pay for power sent back to the grid?
One for one in kWh, zeroed each 31 March. Any energy balance in your favor on 31 March is zeroed out, with no credit to you.
Do I need a battery with Snohomish PUD?
Not for the economics. Snohomish PUD 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 Snohomish PUD bill?
Sign in at snopud.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 Snohomish PUD?
Schedule 200 stays open until the Board adopts a successor rate, no sooner than 30 June 2029 or 58.204 MW of net metered capacity. A separate Schedule 201, Net Billing (effective 1 April 2026), instead bills every kWh you draw and pays a cents-per-kWh credit for every kWh you export: for solar-only systems 4.605 cents in April, May and October 2026, 3.956 cents June to September and 4.381 cents from November 2026 to March 2027. Ask the PUD which schedule your system goes on.