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 Consolidated Edison, National Grid, or RG&E, 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 total costs on a monthly basis.
However, if you are serviced by Central Hudson, NYSEG, or Orange & Rockland, and would like to join our community solar program, we would recommend discontinuing your budget billing plan. If not, you will continue to generate solar credits that cannot offset your fixed monthly budget payment amount. You would only be able to see the credits applied to your electric account when the utility conducts their “true ups” at the end of your budget billing cycle.