Budget billing with your utility allows you to pay a consistent monthly amount throughout the year regardless of how much your utility costs were.
If you are serviced by any of the utilities we work with in the state (Ameren or Commonwealth Edison) and are enrolled in budget billing, our community solar program can still be beneficial for you. Their systems allow our solar credits to continue to reduce your electricity costs on a monthly basis.
Note for Ameren Customers: To secure the most amount of savings while enrolled with budget billing, we recommend reaching out to your utility and request for a budget pay plan adjustment. We suggest you mention something along the lines of, “I am a Nexamp community solar subscriber and I’m reaching out to request a budget pay plan adjustment. Nexamp plans to cover approximately 80% of my usage by applying solar energy credits to my bill. I’d like to adjust my budget plan amount accordingly.”
If you do this, you would be able to see the credits applied to your utility account when your utility conducts their “true ups” at the end of your budget billing cycle.