If your recommended rate is TOU-D-A, a baseline credit of $0.10 per kWh is based on your monthly baseline kilowatt-hour electricity allowance. The baseline allowance is a set amount of kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity considered essential to meeting basic heating, lighting, and cooking needs. Your baseline credit is not reflected in the rate table shown but will be applied each month to your bill. Your baseline allowance will change by season, with summer months typically having a larger baseline allowance, thereby providing a greater baseline credit. For example, if your baseline allowance is 165 kWh, a credit of $16.50 would be applied to your monthly electric bill (165 kWh multiplied by $0.10 credit).
As a Residential Net Energy Metering customer, if your recommended rate is TOU-D-A, the calculation for the baseline credit is based on your monthly baseline kilowatt-hour electricity allowance and if you are a net consumer or net generator (for the month). Net Consumer - When you are a net consumer for the month (i.e., you consume more electricity from SCE than you export to the grid), a portion of your energy charges will be lowered through the baseline credit of $0.10 per kWh (up to the baseline allowance limit). Net Generator - When you are a net generator for the month (i.e., you export more electricity than you consume from SCE that month), the baseline credit will appear as a monthly charge of $0.10 per excess generated kWh (up to the baseline allowance limit). This is necessary to ensure that you receive the same rate for the exported kWh that you would have received if you had consumed that same kWh from SCE.