Yes, but not at the price you pay for electricity. If you have solar and send more power to the grid than you use in a billing period, OG&E credits that excess at its avoided energy cost, which is a wholesale-based rate, not your retail rate. Power you use on site is worth the full retail rate. That difference is the most important thing to understand before you size a system.
The details below come from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and from OG&E’s net energy billing option tariff sheet, which was effective January 1, 2020. Utility tariffs change, so confirm current terms with OG&E before you sign anything.
How net energy billing works
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission says utilities must buy excess energy “at the utility’s avoided energy cost,” and that netting up to your consumption is done at full retail energy rates. In practice, each billing period your solar production first offsets your own usage at the retail rate. Only what is left over counts as excess.
OG&E’s tariff says excess is credited or paid in dollars in the next billing periods “at the applicable on or off-peak price of OG&E’s Avoided Energy Cost.” Under that tariff, avoided cost is based on wholesale day-ahead prices in the Southwest Power Pool market, averaged over a rolling 30 days, so the credit rate moves with the market.
What happens to unused credits
Excess is credited in dollars and carried to later bills. The tariff says a credit that has been carried for more than 24 consecutive months, or that exceeds $100, may be paid out as a one-time payment.
Who qualifies
The tariff sheet covers residential, commercial, industrial and public authority customers with a generator nameplate rating of 300 kW or less, and with generating capacity no greater than 125% of the customer’s peak load. The Commission’s net metering page currently lists the same 300 kW cap and 125% peak load limit.
At the time of that sheet, customers also needed to be on their standard time-of-use rate schedule, with some other rate options excluded, and to sign a purchase agreement for small power facilities. Ask OG&E which rate you would be on, because your rate affects what solar saves you.
What this means for sizing your system
- Solar you use as it is produced offsets the retail rate, so it is your most valuable output.
- Excess is credited at a much lower wholesale-based rate, so a system much larger than your usage saves less per panel.
- Storage can shift daytime production into the evening, so more of it offsets retail power. See solar battery backup in Oklahoma.
- With no federal homeowner tax credit for systems completed after 2025, the sizing and quote matter even more. See Oklahoma solar tax credits in 2026.
What about PSO customers?
Public Service Company of Oklahoma has its own tariff, and we have not reviewed it here. If PSO is your utility, ask them for their current interconnection and excess energy terms.
Get a system sized to your usage
We estimate systems from your address and your last twelve months of electricity use, and we check your utility’s current terms before we quote. Request a free estimate or read about on-grid solar systems and net metering setup.
Sources
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission: Net Metering in Oklahoma (updated September 2026)
- OG&E Net Energy Billing Option, Sheets 70.10 to 70.12 (effective January 1, 2020)