That rate structure has not yet been determined. These terms are part of a transition agreement that will be in effect until the aggregte amount of net metering on the grid reaches 170 megawatts, which should happen sometime in 2020.Īfter the transition period ends, a finalized rate structure will be in place for new customers. The rate structure may be changed only with the approval of the Utah Public Service Commission. If you sign up under this agreement, it will be in effect for you until December 31, 2032. Given that the current residential rate starts at 8.8498 cents per kilowatt hour and hits 14.4508 cents per kilowatt hour only if you use more than one megawatt hour of electricity during the summer months, this net billing agreement is a fairly reasonable deal for solar consumers. There is also a one-time application review fee of $60, and an electric meter fee of $200. Under this agreement, new customers will sign up for a net billing agreement that pays 9.2 cents per kilowatt hour of solar power that they export to the grid. In September 2017, Rocky Mountain Power came to an agreement with solar advocates and state agencies to end net metering for new customers and adopt a net billing scheme that is still relatively favorable to solar customers in the state. Municipal utilities in Utah offer a combination of net metering, net billing, and feed-in tariffs. Rocky Mountain Power, the largest utility in the state, is currently transitioning away from net metering and offers net billing to new customers. The utility company is asking the Public Service Commission to approve a one-time application fee of $60 to cover administrative costs and a $15 fixed monthly rate charge for other costs like customer service and meters.Net metering is available with some utilities in Utah. "This is substantially more onerous," he said. "For us, we think it is an outrageous and unfair move by a monopoly," he said.īywater said rate changes imposed in Nevada killed rooftop solar installations - dropping them by 99 percent - and led major solar companies to leave the state. "Customers partially relying on renewable energy through the net metering program must still pay their fair share of the costs to serve them," Hoogeveen said.īut David Bywater, Vivant Solar's interim chief executive officer, described the proposal as the most onerous assault on the solar industry in the country, predicting it will topple one of Utah's fastest-growing economic engines. "Rocky Mountain Power supports renewable resources as long as an appropriate rate is in place that allows customers to use private generation without adversely affecting other residential customers," said Greg Hoogeveen, Rocky Mountain Power's senior vice president and chief commercial officer. Those costs - which the utility company says will balloon to $667 million over the next 20 years - are driving a proposed three-prong rate increase for any new solar customers after Dec. SALT LAKE CITY - Rocky Mountain Power says a study of what rooftop solar customers are paying shows that the current rate structure is not sustainable, with costs of $6.5 million being shifted each year to other customers. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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