We will continue to read your meter just like we did before, and you will receive electric bills on your normal billing schedule. Every month you will be billed the District’s Basic Customer Charge. Your bill will then show the amount of energy that the District delivered to you, the amount of energy that the District received from you, and based on those 2 values we will calculate your net energy purchases. If we deliver more energy to you than we received from you, you will be billed for the difference at our regular electrical rate for your service. If we receive more energy from you than what we had delivered, then we will store the energy balance on your account. If you have an energy balance on your account, then we will subtract from that before we bill you for the energy. Most installations build up an energy balance over the summer that they use up late fall and winter when their energy use is up, and the solar array generates less energy. Per state law, any balance remaining in March will then become the property of the PUD, the balance will be returned to 0, and a new solar year will start.
