If you submitted an NEM application prior to February 15, 2024 and you have multiple electric accounts on the same property as the renewable generator or property is contiguous or adjacent to that property, you can install a generator up to the aggregated load of all accounts, so long as all the properties are solely owned, leased, or rented by you. You must also be the customer of record on all SCE accounts and the accounts must have been established prior to December 15, 2022.

Any change to the point of interconnection requires a new application. Once your new application is submitted, as part of the interconnection process, SCE will email you and/or your contractor to schedule the removal of the GMA.

No, GMAs are not designed for use with paired-storage systems.

This will be considered a line-side connection. Cities and AHJs may have various requirements regarding line-side connections, however, once the GMA is approved by SCE, most AHJs will accept the installation of SCE-owned equipment. Please ask your contractor to work with your city or AHJ to determine if the GMA is an approved method for interconnecting. 

GMAs offer certain Solar Billing Plan customers an alternative interconnection option to traditional supply-side connections (also called “line-side taps”). They eliminate the need to make modifications to your meter panel, which may help reduce the overall cost and time of your renewable generating facility installation. They provide a safer installation compared to the traditional line-side taps by eliminating the need to enter or modify the service panel.

DA and CCA customers are eligible to participate in NEM if the Energy Service Provider (ESP) or CCA agrees to support the NEM provisions of the NEM rate. The ESP or CCA must provide their agreement to support these provisions before your associated accounts can/will be placed on NEM. SCE will be responsible for delivery credits (if applicable), and your ESP or CCA will be responsible for any corresponding generation credits. DA and CCA customers are not eligible for Net Surplus Compensation from SCE.

If your ESP or CCA declines to support NEM, you have a few options: 

• You may choose to remain with your service provider, continue service without the benefits of NEM, however you will still receive the usage reduction benefit from the system. 
• You may choose to switch to a different ESP that offers NEM.
• You may choose to return to bundled service.

Where CCAs and ESPs have their own NEM programs, they still must go through our interconnection process and receive permission to operate their generating facility from SCE. 

Note: SCE cannot speak for the ESP or CCA and cannot discuss the ESP’s or CCA’s reason(s) for declining to support NEM or NEM Aggregation. If you have any further questions, please contact your ESP or CCA.  
 

Yes. The following customers are ineligible for Net Surplus Compensation: 

• Direct Access (DA) customers
• Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) customers 

You may elect to change the start date of your 12-month billing period once only for the lifetime of the account, by completing and returning a NEM One-Time Relevant Period Change Request Form (14-936).

You will be responsible for selecting the date of the requested change. We must receive this form at least 60 days before the requested start date of the new 12-month billing period. When the start date is changed, your existing 12-month billing period will end, generating your settlement bill, and your new 12-month billing period will begin. Under no circumstances will a 12-month billing period extend beyond 12 months.
 

Before or at the end of your 12-month settlement bill, if you are on the Annual Billing Option (ABO) and have supplied more electricity than you have used, you may be compensated with an on-bill credit or a check for the NSC paid at the market rate. 

The Monthly Billing Option (MBO) includes a settlement of monthly energy charges and credits (in $s) over the entire 12-month billing period. This means that any dollar-value energy credits remaining at the end of the 12-month billing period are used to offset energy charges billed to the customer in an earlier month in the 12-month billing period. This eliminates the need for a customer to adjust the start date of their 12-month billing period to maximize the use of the monetary credits received over the 12-month billing period. Any remaining surplus energy may be compensated with an on-bill credit or a check for the NSC paid at the market rate. 

For either Annual or Monthly Billing Options, once the NSC is calculated and issued to the account holder, the balance will be zeroed out and the new 12-month billing period will begin on the next regularly scheduled meter read date.
 

Not necessarily. Payment is issued only if the customer has net surplus electricity (you have supplied more energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh) to the grid than you have used over the 12-month billing period). It is rare for a customer to have monetary credit remaining at the end of a full 12-month bill period and not have net surplus electricity. However, this scenario can occur with customers who supply energy to the grid during peak periods when electricity is more expensive and use energy from the grid during off-peak periods when electricity costs less.