Electric cooperative
Solar with Sheridan Electric Cooperative
Sheridan Electric Cooperative members pay 9.50¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 19 years.
Not yet verified. Sheridan Electric Cooperative does not publish a rate schedule online. The figures here are estimates pending the schedule; call the utility or upload a bill for your real price.
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At a glance
Residential schedule effective January 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026. Sources.
What this means for solar
- Excess power is banked as kWh at the full retail rate and drawn down in later months. The bank resets in April, and anything left is forfeited to the utility.
- Sheridan Electric Cooperative has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- Systems up to 10 kW AC qualify for net metering; above that, capacity would run without export credit.
A typical home: 900 kWh a month, gas heat
Best-case figures with the range shown; no federal credit for homes in 2026. Production reference: Sidney. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.
Full schedule and net-metering rules
- Fixed charge
- $35 per month
- Energy
- 9.50¢ all kWh
- Net metering
- The interconnection agreement sets no cap, credit method or true-up and says it is not an agreement to purchase power; $1M per-occurrence liability insurance required. Common co-op pattern assumed.
- Notes
- Call the co-op (406-789-2231) for the 2026 schedule. A bill upload calibrates the estimate meanwhile.
- Effective
- January 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026
Questions members ask
- Does Sheridan Electric Cooperative pay for excess solar power?
- Excess power is banked as kWh at the full retail rate and drawn down in later months. The bank resets in April, and anything left is forfeited to the utility.
- How big a solar system can I net-meter with Sheridan Electric Cooperative?
- Systems up to 10 kW AC qualify for net metering.
- Does Sheridan Electric Cooperative have a demand charge?
- Sheridan Electric Cooperative has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- What would solar cost and save for a typical Sheridan Electric Cooperative home?
- For a gas-heated home using about 900 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 8.3 kW, costs roughly $20,737 to $25,345 installed, saves $944 to $1,077 in the first year, and pays back in 16.2 to 21.4 years at 2.7% a year rate growth. Your address gives a real figure in about a minute.
- What federal incentives apply in 2026?
- The 30% homeowner credit (Section 25D) ended for systems completed after December 31, 2025. Business-owned systems, including ranches, farms and rental property, still qualify for the 30% investment credit (Section 48E) and bonus depreciation when placed in service by the end of 2027; tax-exempt owners receive the 30% as a cash payment. Not tax advice.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- The rate figures are read from Sheridan Electric Cooperative's own published schedule and net-metering policy (linked under Sources), last checked November 1, 2026. The worked example runs the same engine as the estimator, using a production reference for Sidney and Montana installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.
Service area
Other Montana co-ops: Flathead Electric Cooperative, Missoula Electric Cooperative, Park Electric Cooperative, Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Ravalli Electric Cooperative, Fergus Electric Cooperative. All 26 utilities.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from the documents below. We print the schedule’s effective date and the date we last read it; when a utility publishes nothing, we say so instead of guessing quietly.
- Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rateEffective January 1, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Not verified: placeholder figures
- Net-metering / distributed-generation policyChecked November 1, 2026 · Not verified: placeholder figures
- Service territory on the mapChecked October 31, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- Worked example: production, installed cost, savings and paybackChecked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- Sheridan Electric Cooperative does not publish a rate schedule online. The figures here are estimates pending the schedule; call the utility or upload a bill for your real price.
- Sheridan Electric Cooperative's net-metering terms are not published; the common Montana co-op pattern is assumed until confirmed.
Spot an error or a rate change? Email mtsolarestimate@gmail.com. How the estimate itself is built: methodology.
Your address, your numbers
Roof, usage and heating change everything above. The estimate takes about a minute and asks for no contact details.