What is Central Hudson SC-1?

Residential Service (flat). Default residential class for Central Hudson. It carries a $25 monthly basic service charge and an all-in cost of $0.22–$0.30 per kWh once delivery, supply, and surcharges are combined.

Look at the service classification printed on your Central Hudson bill — it will name the rate directly. Default residential class for Central Hudson.

What is the Customer Benefit Contribution on Central Hudson?

$0.86 per kW-DC per month, charged on net-metered systems interconnected on or after January 1, 2022. On a 9 kW system that is about $93 a year, every year, for the life of the array. It is charged on installed capacity rather than on export, which is why oversizing costs you twice.

Central Hudson Gas & Electric · Flat rate

Central Hudson SC-1 explained

Default residential class for Central Hudson.

The rate

Residential Service (flat)

Basic service charge

$25 / month

$300 a year, charged at zero kWh. No amount of solar removes it.

Filed Central Hudson residential rates · verified Apr 2026

All-in cost of energy

$0.22–$0.30 / kWh

Delivery plus supply plus surcharges. Divide your own bill total by your kWh to find your real number.

Filed Central Hudson residential rates · verified Apr 2026

Customer Benefit Contribution

$0.86 / kW-DC / month

On a 9 kW system that is $93 a year, for the life of the array.

Filed Customer Benefit Contribution (CBC) rates · verified Jan 2026

VDER / NYISO zone

G (Hudson Valley)

Determines Value Stack pricing where VDER applies instead of net metering.

Solar

What this rate does to solar economics

Retail net metering at a mid-to-high all-in rate. Economics land between upstate and Con Edison territory.

Show the arithmetic

A household using 10,000 kWh a year on SC-1 pays roughly $2,600 for energy at the $0.26/kWh midpoint, plus $300 in basic service charges, plus $93 in CBC once a 9 kW array is interconnected. A 100% offset removes the $2,600 and leaves the $393.

Midpoint arithmetic for illustration. Your all-in rate depends on your supply arrangement and the season.

Storage

What this rate does to battery economics

Flat rate, no arbitrage. Storage here is outage coverage, and this territory has enough tree-driven outages that the case is easier to make than the spreadsheet suggests.

Watch out

Catches on this rate

Heavy tree canopy across this territory drives both shading losses and outage frequency. The same trees that cut your production are the ones that take down your power.
The basic service charge is among the higher ones in the state and does not go away.

Interconnection

Getting connected on Central Hudson

Heavily wooded, hilly terrain means shading studies matter more here than almost anywhere else in the state. A production estimate built from a satellite roof outline without a shade model is not worth much in Ulster or Greene County.
Hosting capacity in the rural western parts of the territory is genuinely constrained in places.

Where this applies

Places on Central Hudson

10 New York counties have Central Hudson customers. These are the ones we have local pages for.

Questions

Central Hudson SC-1 FAQ

What is Central Hudson SC-1?: Residential Service (flat). Default residential class for Central Hudson. It carries a $25 monthly basic service charge and an all-in cost of $0.22–$0.30 per kWh once delivery, supply, and surcharges are combined.
How does SC-1 affect solar payback?: Retail net metering at a mid-to-high all-in rate. Economics land between upstate and Con Edison territory.
Is a home battery worth it on Central Hudson SC-1?: Flat rate, no arbitrage. Storage here is outage coverage, and this territory has enough tree-driven outages that the case is easier to make than the spreadsheet suggests.
Am I on SC-1?: Look at the service classification printed on your Central Hudson bill — it will name the rate directly. Default residential class for Central Hudson.
What is the Customer Benefit Contribution on Central Hudson?: $0.86 per kW-DC per month, charged on net-metered systems interconnected on or after January 1, 2022. On a 9 kW system that is about $93 a year, every year, for the life of the array. It is charged on installed capacity rather than on export, which is why oversizing costs you twice.

Next step

Find your own number

The band above is a range for the whole territory. Your all-in rate is one division away.

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How this page is built

This is a generated page: the structure is shared across locations, the numbers are not. Every figure comes from the source cited beside it, with the date we last checked it. Nothing here is a quote, an appraisal, or tax advice, and none of it is specific to your roof.

Rates and incentive programs change. We re-verify utility tariffs and NYSERDA program status on a rolling schedule and stamp the date on each number rather than on the page, so you can see which specific figures are fresh. Full methodology · Program status tracker · About the Local Energy Playbook

Page content last reviewed April 2026.

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