A New California Solar Program is Here
The Solar Billing Plan (SBP) is a new program for customers who apply for interconnection of an eligible renewable generating system, such as solar or wind, after April 14, 2023. The Solar Billing Plan succeeds the Net Energy Metering (NEM) 2.0 program.
For customers considering solar and other renewable generation1 at their homes, the Solar Billing Plan is designed to help modernize solar rates to promote grid reliability, incentivize solar and battery storage, and help control electricity costs for all Californians. Each month, billing will include charges for energy used from the electric grid, as well as energy credits exported to the grid.
1 Renewable generation includes solar, wind, renewable gas, and other technologies that satisfy the CEC Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) qualifications.
Solar Application Processing Data
Plan Details
Charges
Residential customers who enroll in the Solar Billing Plan will be transitioned to the TOU-D-Prime rate and will be charged the full retail rate for all energy that they consume. For more information on the TOU-D-Prime rate, visit Time-Of-Use Residential Rate Plans.
Energy Export Credits (EEC)
On the Solar Billing Plan, Energy Export Credits will be applied to the amount of electricity a customer exports to the grid and will reflect the electricity’s value to the electric grid during each hour of the day. Energy Export Credits will be calculated by taking the kilowatt hours generated by the customer’s generating system that is exported hourly to the grid multiplied by the Energy Export Credit prices. These EEC prices will vary hourly throughout the day and can be found below for both Pacific Time and Universal Time. Customers who enroll in the Solar Billing Plan before January 1, 2028, will have fixed EEC prices for the first nine years of operation. The nine years is referred to as the lock-in period.
Each year, the EEC Prices are calculated using the CPUC Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) approved as of January 1 of the calculation year (the “vintage year”). For each “vintage year”, the simple average EEC Price is calculated for each month of a 9-year lock in period, and it is differentiated by hour (24 hours) and by weekdays and weekend/holidays.
In addition, each hourly EEC Price is broken down in two components: (1) the Generation EEC Price (energy, cap and trade and generation capacity) component, and (2) the Delivery Service EEC Price (transmission, distribution, greenhouse adder and methane leakage) component.
*Various files in the Energy Export Credit Pricing page were updated on February 25, 2025. Please delete any older files downloaded prior to the update.
EEC Adjustment Pricing - An adjustment for duplicate Energy Export Credits (EEC) that were applied during the Relevant Period. If applicable, this charge will appear as two separate line items: one for delivery and one for generation portions of the bill.
Energy Export Bonus Credit
To encourage early adoption of the Solar Billing Plan, residential customers who enroll prior to 2028 are also eligible to receive an additional credit. Those enrolling in the first year of the program will receive an additional $0.04 per kWh for residential customers and $0.09 per kWh for low-income customers. Currently, three groups of customers are considered low-income:
- Residential customers who are enrolled in the CARE and FERA programs.
- Residential owners of single-family homes in Disadvantaged Communities, or
- Residential customers living in Tribal Communities.
To determine if you reside in a Disadvantaged Community, please visit the CalEPA website at SB535 Disadvantaged Communities 2022 (arcgis.com).
A Fair Approach to Solar Credit
The Energy Export Credit Adjustment (EECA) is applied to the settlement bill for accounts that exported an overage of kilowatt hours (kWh) over the course of their 12-month billing cycle. This adjustment encourages appropriately sized solar installations that are matched to the customer’s needs, based on their usage history. It also helps ensure fairness of costs and credits for all SCE customers.
Support for Solar Billing Plan (SBP) Customers
If you are a Residential SBP customer impacted by a major disaster for which a state of emergency has been declared, and you choose to rebuild your renewable generation system, you may be eligible to remain on your original tariff and have application fees waived if you meet the following requirements:
- Notify us of your intent to rebuild within two years from the date the major disaster occurred; AND
- Complete your renewable generation system rebuild and submit a new interconnection application within four years from the date the major disaster occurred.
To notify us of your intent to rebuild your renewable generation system, please complete this Disaster Support Form.
If you have additional questions, contact us at: customer.generation@sce.com.