What is Con Edison SC-1 Rate II (EL9)?

Residential Voluntary Time-of-Use. Con Edison customers who opted in, most often EV owners. The on-peak window is narrow, which makes this rate unusually forgiving. It carries a $22 monthly basic service charge and an all-in cost of $0.14–$0.48 per kWh once delivery, supply, and surcharges are combined.

Am I on SC-1 Rate II (EL9)?

Look at the service classification printed on your Con Edison bill — it will name the rate directly. Con Edison customers who opted in, most often EV owners. The on-peak window is narrow, which makes this rate unusually forgiving.

What is the Customer Benefit Contribution on Con Edison?

$1.09 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 $118 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.

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Con Edison SC-1 Rate II (EL9) explained

Con Edison customers who opted in, most often EV owners. The on-peak window is narrow, which makes this rate unusually forgiving.

The rate

Residential Voluntary Time-of-Use

Basic service charge

$22 / month

$264 a year, charged at zero kWh. No amount of solar removes it.

Filed Con Edison residential electric rates · verified Apr 2026

All-in cost of energy

$0.14–$0.48 / kWh

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

Filed Con Edison residential electric rates · verified Apr 2026

Customer Benefit Contribution

$1.09 / kW-DC / month

On a 9 kW system that is $118 a year, for the life of the array.

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

VDER / NYISO zone

I (Dunwoodie / Westchester), J (New York City)

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

Time of use

When power costs what

This is the whole reason to be on a TOU rate. If your usage does not move, the rate does not help you.

Period	Hours	All-in cost
On-peak	Weekday afternoon and evening · Summer peak pricing is materially higher than winter	$0.38–$0.48 / kWh
Off-peak / super off-peak	Overnight and weekends	$0.14–$0.20 / kWh

Filed Con Edison residential electric rates · verified Apr 2026

The arbitrage arithmetic, done properly

Spread is the difference between on-peak and off-peak. Take the mid-spread, multiply by the usable kWh of the battery, then by realistic cycles a year — 250 to 300, not 365. That is the gross annual arbitrage value. Compare it against the marginal cost of the battery over its warranty term before you let a salesperson call storage an investment.

On this rate the mid-spread is roughly $0.26 per kWh. On a 13.5 kWh battery at 275 cycles a year that is about $965 a year, gross, before round-trip losses and before you account for the fact that you cannot arbitrage a battery you are also holding in reserve for outages.

Solar

What this rate does to solar economics

Solar plus TOU downstate is genuinely additive: production peaks in the summer afternoon window that is priced highest.

Show the arithmetic

A household using 10,000 kWh a year on SC-1 Rate II (EL9) pays roughly $3,100 for energy at the $0.31/kWh midpoint, plus $264 in basic service charges, plus $118 in CBC once a 9 kW array is interconnected. A 100% offset removes the $3,100 and leaves the $382.

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

Storage

What this rate does to battery economics

This is the best battery-arbitrage rate in New York State. A spread north of $0.20/kWh across a daily cycle is enough that storage economics stop being purely about outages. It is still not a fast payback, but the math is at least arguable here — which is not true anywhere upstate.

Watch out

Catches on this rate

Winter on-peak pricing is much lower than summer. Annualize before you get excited.
You still cannot escape the basic service charge.
Export restrictions in network areas apply regardless of which rate you pick.

Interconnection

Getting connected on Con Edison

Secondary network distribution — common in Manhattan and dense parts of Brooklyn and Queens — is designed to push power one direction only. Exporting solar onto a network can require a network protector study, an export-limiting device, or in some cases is simply not permitted.
Radial-fed areas, which covers most of Staten Island, the Bronx, outer Queens, and Westchester, behave much more like the rest of the state.
Con Edison's review is the slowest in New York. Six months from application to Permission to Operate is not unusual.
NYC also layers its own DOB filing and FDNY rooftop-access requirements on top of the utility process. Setback rules eat usable roof area.

Application to Permission to Operate

10–30 weeks

Utility-side only. Permitting and install scheduling are on top.

Observed GridReady quote and bill review sample · verified Apr 2026Wide band because network-area addresses behave completely differently from radial-fed ones.

Where this applies

Places on Con Edison

9 New York counties have Con Edison customers. These are the ones we have local pages for.

Questions

Con Edison SC-1 Rate II (EL9) FAQ

What is Con Edison SC-1 Rate II (EL9)?: Residential Voluntary Time-of-Use. Con Edison customers who opted in, most often EV owners. The on-peak window is narrow, which makes this rate unusually forgiving. It carries a $22 monthly basic service charge and an all-in cost of $0.14–$0.48 per kWh once delivery, supply, and surcharges are combined.
How does SC-1 Rate II (EL9) affect solar payback?: Solar plus TOU downstate is genuinely additive: production peaks in the summer afternoon window that is priced highest.
Is a home battery worth it on Con Edison SC-1 Rate II (EL9)?: This is the best battery-arbitrage rate in New York State. A spread north of $0.20/kWh across a daily cycle is enough that storage economics stop being purely about outages. It is still not a fast payback, but the math is at least arguable here — which is not true anywhere upstate.
Am I on SC-1 Rate II (EL9)?: Look at the service classification printed on your Con Edison bill — it will name the rate directly. Con Edison customers who opted in, most often EV owners. The on-peak window is narrow, which makes this rate unusually forgiving.
What is the Customer Benefit Contribution on Con Edison?: $1.09 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 $118 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.

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