Estimate solar net metering credits, exported kWh, imported kWh, net grid usage, monthly bill offset, true-up balance, and annual solar savings. Use this calculator to compare retail net metering, partial export credits, avoided-cost credits, and monthly net billing estimates.
Monthly mode:
The calculator estimates the bill from imported kWh, exported kWh, export credit rate, retail rate, fixed charges, and minimum bill.
Annual mode:
The calculator estimates annual usage, annual production, annual exported kWh, annual bill savings, and long-term savings.
True-up mode:
The calculator estimates how current export credits may build toward a true-up balance over the remaining months.
Export credit mode:
The calculator compares retail net metering credit with avoided-cost or partial export credit values.
A solar net metering calculator helps estimate how exported solar energy affects your utility bill and how much value your solar production may create.
It can help compare imported kWh, exported kWh, self-consumed solar, retail credit, avoided-cost credit, monthly bill savings, annual savings, and true-up balances.
Your result shows estimated solar bill, bill without solar, export credit value, imported grid cost, self-consumption value, monthly savings, annual savings, true-up balance, bill offset percentage, and estimated long-term savings.
Solar net metering is a billing method where excess solar electricity sent to the grid earns credits that can reduce your electric bill.
Multiply exported kWh by the export credit rate. If exports are credited at the full retail rate, the credit is higher than if exports are credited at avoided cost or another lower rate.
Imported kWh is energy you buy from the grid. Exported kWh is extra solar energy your system sends to the grid.
Many utility bills include fixed charges, minimum bills, non-bypassable charges, demand charges, taxes, or fees that may remain even when solar offsets most usage.
No. This is an estimate. Actual net metering savings can vary based on utility rules, rate plans, time-of-use rates, monthly true-up rules, annual true-up rules, export credit rates, fixed charges, taxes, and local policy.