Renewable Rewards® Solar Max plan.

Congratulations! By signing up for the Renewable Rewards Solar Max plan, you’re living greener and helping the planet by choosing clean electricity to power your home. Now it’s time to reap the benefits of your eco-friendly choices.

Here’s how it works:

  • Bill Credit: You’ll receive unlimited bill credits for all the excess energy sent to the grid.*
  • Buyback Rate: Your buyback rate is based on 15-minute interval market pricing, which may change throughout the day.
  • Credit Timing: If your solar system is new, credits may take up to three billing cycles to appear.
  • Solar Production: Coming soon… You’ll be able to track your real-time, 15-minute interval data in the Green Mountain App.

Excess Energy: Any excess energy you produce is sent to the grid for others to use, and you’ll receive credits for 100% of it based on the real-time market rate for each 15-minute interval.

For example: If you use 800 kWh from the grid and send 900 kWh back, you’ll receive credits for the full 900 kWh at the current market rate during each 15-minute period interval.

100% Solar

If you ever need grid electricity, we’ll make sure you’re using solar power.

Bill Credits

Receive credit for 100% of the excess solar energy you send to the grid, based on 15-minute real-time wholesale prices, with no cap.

Plan Flexibility

Choose from a variety of term lengths to fit your green lifestyle.

See your energy use in real time.

Download the Green Mountain App and link your inverter for the complete picture of your energy usage.

Renewable Rewards Solar Max plan FAQs

Yes. With our Renewable Rewards buyback plans, you receive credit for all the excess energy your solar energy system delivers to the grid. For the Renewable Rewards Solar Max plan, the rate per kWh you are credited for excess electricity is the real-time wholesale rate for your Load Zone, with no cap on the amount you can earn. Your excess electricity credits will show up on your electricity bill on the “Bill credit” line.

 

Please note that the Renewable Rewards Solar Max plan is only available for Texas residential customers who meet the plan requirements.

For each 15-minute interval:

Buyback credit amount = (Buyback rate in $/kWh) x (Excess energy delivered to the grid in kWh during the 15-min. interval)

 

The buyback rate is equal to ERCOT Load Zone Real Time Settlement Point Price (RTSPP) in the 15-minute interval for the customer’s load zone. If the RTSPP is less than zero for a given 15-minute interval, the credit amount will be zero for that interval.

 

The credit amount for the bill period will be the sum of the credit amounts across all 15-minute intervals in that period.

 

In the event Green Mountain Energy receives incomplete interval data from your TDSP, Green Mountain Energy may estimate your outflow kWh for missing periods based on the monthly meter read reported by the TDSP. When there is a difference in outflow kWh between the monthly meter read and the monthly total of the interval data, the difference will be allocated over missing intervals and the estimated outflow kWh will be used to calculate credit amounts applied to your bill.

No, there are no caps on excess electricity credits. Customers enrolled on the Renewable Rewards Solar Max plan that meet the eligibility requirements will receive credits for all excess electricity delivered to the grid. If the credits exceed the charges on your monthly invoice, the remaining credits will carry forward to the next month.

 

See the map below to find your ERCOT 15-minute RTSPP load zone.

 



Your Renewable Rewards Solar Max buyback plan bill shows:

  • Your energy usage from the grid, or the inflow of electricity through your meter (shown on the “Energy Charge” line).

 

  • The excess solar energy for which you are credited (shown on the “Renewable Rewards Credit” line).

 

Both your grid usage and your excess energy are measured by the meter installed by your utility. The bill does not show your total solar production, which may be measured by your solar monitor. This is because some of the solar power is immediately used by your house and never flows to the grid.

 

You can download your excess energy export data from your Smart Meter Texas account or request a paper copy by calling a Solar Call Center Specialist at 1-855-465-5061.

*The credit per kWh for the extra energy generated by your solar system that you send to the grid will be equal to the real-time wholesale electricity price or Load Zone Real-Time Settlement Price (RTSPP) for the 15-minute interval during which the energy was sent to the grid. It may take up to 3 billing cycles after receiving Permission to Operate (PTO) from your utility to begin receiving credits.

To receive bill credits, a customer must have a qualifying solar energy system with a rated capacity less than 50 kW at the utility service address and an active interconnection agreement with the utility (or TDSP). The customer must have a meter installed and configured by their TDSP that measures the inflow and outflow of electricity to and from their home.

 

Our customers have avoided

 

pounds of CO2

That’s like planting

 

new trees.