Use this guide
Choose the questions relevant to your situation. Expand each answer, save the checklist and request written clarification where evidence is missing.
Questions homeowners ask
Does Solar Billing Plan credit every exported kWh at one price?
No. SDG&E describes export credits based on the value of energy sent to the grid at each hour. Keep export timing and the applicable pricing record together.
Source: SDG&E: Solar Billing Plan and CCA pricing responsibilities. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Who sets generation prices when my account uses a CCA?
SDG&E says San Diego Community Power or Clean Energy Alliance sets its customers’ generation import charges and export credits. Contact the actual CCA for that portion of the calculation.
Source: SDG&E: Solar Billing Plan and CCA pricing responsibilities. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Where can I obtain export records for a billing period?
SDG&E directs customers to My Energy Center to download the Export Data and Pricing spreadsheet each bill period. Retain it with the matching statement.
Source: SDG&E: Solar Billing Plan and CCA pricing responsibilities. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
How does the export-pricing explainer distinguish generation and delivery?
Its RateLookupID labels use USCA-XXSD for generation export pricing and USCA-SDXX for delivery. The posted generation pricing applies to non-CCA customers. Confirm your record’s labels and provider.
Source: SDG&E: Understanding Export Pricing, 2024 worksheet explainer. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
What does the example RateName NBT24 identify?
The 2024 explainer associates NBT24 with that application year’s legacy pricing. It says opting into current-year prices changes legacy pricing; check your bill rather than copying its example rate.
Source: SDG&E: Understanding Export Pricing, 2024 worksheet explainer. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Which time labels need care when reading the pricing worksheet?
The explainer labels date/time columns in UTC and day columns in Pacific Prevailing Time. ValueName identifies month, day type and hour starting. Preserve the labels when comparing exports.
Source: SDG&E: Understanding Export Pricing, 2024 worksheet explainer. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Can solar export credits eliminate the Base Services Charge?
SDG&E’s billing page says its Base Services Charge applies to solar customers and cannot be offset by export credits. Keep this charge separate from energy-credit comparisons.
Source: SDG&E: Base Services Charge and solar customers. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Is the Base Services Charge identical on every household bill?
The utility describes discounted charges for qualifying CARE, FERA and deed-restricted affordable housing customers. The billed amount also varies with billing-cycle length. Verify your account’s actual category and statement.
Source: SDG&E: Base Services Charge and solar customers. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
How can I compare two hourly-export scenarios?
Use the same exported-energy total and change only the timing and assumed prices. Then list the actual applicable price source, provider, account plan and dates. Keep generation and delivery components separately labeled. An illustrative calculation helps explain timing; it does not predict your full bill, establish eligibility or justify changing an accepted pricing arrangement.
Where can site evidence help with this decision?
A defined Solar Survey AI survey can help document physical inputs behind a production model. Confirm the actual homeowner scope and availability. Keep modeled production separate from measured exports and billing assumptions. A survey does not set utility or CCA prices or guarantee savings. Homeowner provider connections and planned free remote diagnosis remain coming soon.
Your decision checklist
- Identify Solar Billing Plan or the actual program on your bill.
- Identify the generation provider and delivery utility.
- Keep each statement with its matching export download.
- Record pricing year, component labels and date range.
- Preserve timestamp conventions when matching rows.
- List charges that export credits cannot offset.
- Separate hypothetical prices from accepted account prices.
- Ask the responsible provider to explain a specific unresolved entry.
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Compare timing without confusing it with savings
| Record | What to verify |
|---|---|
| Account identity | Actual solar program, pricing plan and generation provider |
| Matching period | Statement dates and export-download dates |
| Price identity | Applicable year, provider and generation/delivery labels |
| Timing | Original timestamp convention, day type and hour |
| Remaining charges | Actual non-offsettable charges and other obligations |
| Open question | Specific row, responsible provider and written explanation |
Illustration only: scenario A exports 10 kWh at an invented combined export value of $0.05 per kWh, producing $0.50. Scenario B exports the same 10 kWh at an invented $0.20 per kWh, producing $2.00. Neither price is a published SDG&E or CCA rate. The example shows why the same energy total can produce different credits; it is not a bill or savings forecast.
Example: a homeowner compares a production app’s daily total with the utility’s exported energy. Ask whether the records measure the same flow and cover matching intervals before calculating a difference. For a timestamp mismatch, retain the raw labels and ask the provider to confirm alignment. Do not apply one fixed clock offset to every date without checking how the data handles time changes.
This guide selects Solar Billing Plan record checks for SDG&E accounts. It does not apply the same calculation to legacy Net Energy Metering, aggregation or virtual programs. The linked export-pricing explainer is dated 2024 and illustrates field definitions; its sample prices are not current account rates. The current billing page supplies the Base Services Charge explanation. Confirm current applicable tariffs and your provider’s pricing. Original worksheets and examples are editorial advice. For other decisions, see San Diego approval records, assistance eligibility and production, imports and exports. Explore Solar Survey AI’s evidence methodology and confirm available survey scope.
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Published by Solar Survey AI, a commercial survey-services company. Our original decision checklists are recommendations; linked authorities support the referenced facts. We may benefit if you purchase our services. This is not independent certification of our company, a project-specific engineering decision or personal tax/legal advice. Local rules, contracts and site evidence control individual decisions. Reviewed 2026-10-06.
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