Solar in Oklahoma: how the rules work
How Oklahoma credits the power solar panels send back to the grid, what homes there pay for electricity, and what to check when a home with solar is bought or sold.
How exported power is credited
Power sent to the grid is credited at the full retail rate (kWh for kWh), at least within each billing period.
Oklahoma net metering (17 O.S. 156; OAC 165:40-9) covers systems up to 300 kW limited to 125% of expected load. Consumption is offset against production at the full retail energy rate within each monthly billing period. Monthly net excess must be purchased or credited in the next cycle at the utility's avoided energy cost. Under OG&E's Net Energy Billing Option tariff (NEBO, Sheet 70.10), monthly excess is a dollar credit at OG&E's Avoided Energy Cost: a 30-day rolling average of SPP day-ahead LMPs, with on-peak (Jun-Sep weekdays 2-7 pm) and off-peak values. That is typically a few cents per kWh, far below the roughly 12-cent-plus residential retail rate; the exact current value was not found. Credits carry forward, and a one-time payout can be processed once they exceed $100 or 24 months. A minimum bill (customer, meter and demand charges, taxes and franchise fees) always applies. The 1.0 share applies to same-month offsets; monthly excess earns avoided cost only. No 2023-2026 statewide change or OG&E-specific solar fee was found, so there is no grandfathering.
What changes for a home with solar
A savings estimate that counts exported power at the full retail rate matches how exports are credited here. Where only month-end surplus earns a lower rate, homes that use most of their power themselves come closest to that estimate.
Electricity here costs about 13.6¢ per kWh (2026) and has risen about 2.0% a year over the last decade. A lease or PPA escalator above that pace makes the solar payment rise faster than utility rates have.
When a home with solar is sold in Oklahoma
- Owned outright: proof it is paid off, the warranties, and the utility’s interconnection or net-metering agreement, which has to move into the buyer’s name.
- Loan: a payoff letter, and whether the buyer can assume the loan. Many solar loans are secured by a UCC-1 fixture filing that title will find.
- Lease or PPA: the transfer process and how long approval takes, the buyer’s credit check, the current payment or rate and its yearly increase, and a buyout quote.
- Every case: whether the export-credit terms above stay with the home after the sale, and the last 12 months of production from the monitoring app.
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- oklahoma.gov/occ/divisions/public-utility/energy/electric-utility/netmetering.html
- www.oge.com/documents/d/portal/70-10-nebo-net-energy-billing-option-stamped-approved-20200 (2020-01-01)
- Electricity prices: EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.B (2026) and EIA state annual averages 2014–2024
- Installed price: EnergySage marketplace, September 2026