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 Relevant Period. When the start date is changed, your existing 12-month Relevant Period will end, generating your settlement bill, and your new 12-month Relevant Period will begin. Under no circumstances will a 12-month Relevant Period extend beyond 12 months.
Over the course of your 12-month Relevant Period, Energy Export Credits (EEC) 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 here 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.
At the end of your 12-month Relevant Period, if you 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.
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.
The Solar Billing Plan tracks your charges and credits over an annual cycle, which is called your “Relevant Period.” At the end of each Relevant Period, you will receive the final bill in the cycle: your settlement bill. To “settle” your Relevant Period, any unused Energy Export Credits (EECs) are applied to eligible charges in the current month and, if applicable, previous months. After that, remaining EECs will offset any Energy Export Credit Charge Adjustment, and the rest are forfeited.
Once your eligible charges and EECs have been settled, you may or may not be eligible for Net Surplus Compensation (NSC). If you generated more kilowatt-hours (kWh) than you used during the Relevant Period, and your year-to-date NSC is greater than zero, you’ll be credited the wholesale NSC rate per kWh.
Your settlement bill marks the end of your annual Relevant Period, and your account resets to zero for the next Relevant Period.
Accounts with Permission to Operate are typically set up for SBP billing within a few billing cycles. If you experience a delay that exceeds this timeframe, it may be due to an instance where SCE is unable to reprogram or replace the existing meter. Your non-SBP bill will still track the amount of electricity used from the electric grid but will not reflect the Energy Export Credits supplied to the electric grid, until the issue is resolved. The credit(s) for the surplus energy you supply to the electric grid will appear on your first SBP bill. For billing inquiries, please contact SCE Customer Service at 1-866-701-7868 for NEM residential customers or 1-866-701-7869 for NEM business customers. To learn more about how to read your SBP bill statement, please visit the Guide to Your Solar Bill.
Once you’re enrolled in the Solar Billing Plan, SCE tracks the amount of electricity exported to the grid by your solar system, as well as the amount of electricity you consume from the grid, during each billing period. SCE does not track all the energy your solar system produces, only the excess energy you provide to the grid.
If your solar system produces more energy than you need, the Solar Billing Plan allows you to receive Energy Export Credits (EEC) for the surplus electricity you supply to the electric grid. Exported energy can lower your balance or, in some cases, offset it completely – it all depends on how much energy you produce, versus how much energy you consume. These credits are applied to your monthly bill, but do not offset certain set fees. The value of these credits varies hourly. Any unused credits accrue and roll over from month to month for the duration of your Relevant Period.
If you still have surplus energy when you receive your annual settlement statement, you may be eligible for a payout at the Net Surplus Compensation (NSC) rate.
On the Solar Billing Plan, customers will be compensated for energy exported to the grid based on a calculated hourly electricity price. These hourly prices will be derived from the latest CPUC approved Avoided Cost Calculator and will vary by month, weekday, and weekends. These prices will usually be lower than the rate that customers pay for electrical service.
If your project requires, or you request a NGOM, SCE will internally begin this process once your project moves to Engineering Review. Your contractor should keep you updated with the status of your NGOM as it moves through the installation process.
It depends on the size of your storage device. If your storage device has an inverter rating greater than 10 kW, you must adhere to the metering requirements listed in the Interconnection Handbook. If your storage device has an inverter rating of 10 kW or less, no additional metering is required.
Battery systems in a Paired Storage agreement are charged by a renewable generator i.e., solar, wind, etc., but are not permitted to charge from the grid.
A code will be sent to a phone number on file for the account. Make sure you are able to receive the code via the phone number or from the account holder.
