If you choose to remain on budget billing, your utility will continue charging you your predetermined monthly installment. At the same time, monthly solar credits will be applied to your utility statement, reducing what you should have paid your utility outside of budget billing.
Only for utilities that have not provided consolidated billing: If your utility has confirmed that you received solar credits, you will receive a monthly Solar Simplified bill that includes your Community Solar discount. At the end of your budget cycle, when your utility performs its annual reconciliation, your utility will issue a credit for the excess budget payments you made during the time you received solar credits.
To see the immediate benefits and impact of solar credits on your actual electricity charges, you may choose to remove budget billing from your account temporarily. Please keep in mind that canceling budget billing with your utility may result in an additional credit or charge on your next month's utility bill, depending on your actual energy charges while you have been enrolled in budget billing.
If you decide to re-enroll in budget billing again, your monthly installment payments should reflect months when your utility account received solar credits.
If your utility has provided consolidated billing: Solar credits and your discount from Solar Simplified will be applied directly to your electricity bill. Depending on how and when your utility decides to acknowledge this information, your discount may be deducted from your budget bill payment or credited to you when your next account reconcilation is performed.