The California Public Utilities Commission is poised to overhaul the state’s main solar incentive program, known as net metering. The agency’s proposal would effectively make rooftop solar more expensive.
which, if approved, would discourage progress being made in the transition to clean energy and grid resilience.. But this “hard-earned and vitally important accomplishment” may succumb as the Commission considers a plan that has the potential to make California solar too costly for its citizens.“It should be stopped in its tracks.” Schwarzenegger insists that adding a tax and removing incentives will hurt the solar market and fail to help society’s most vulnerable.
How long would it take solar customers to make back their upfront investments if the new plan is passed?calculate a 19-year payback for Edison customers and 16 years for PG&E customers. That’s far short of the 10 years the commission said it is targeting . For low-income homes, paybacks would be 11 or 12 years regardless of utility. For comparison, payback periods currently hover around 5 years.
argues that utilities are unable to get us to the future we deserve fast enough. Utility scale solar is often locally controversial and in conflict with California’s conservation. And more dangerous transmission lines are not what Californians have in mind for our energy future anyways. They say that California needs clean, local energy and cannot move backwards on solar at a time when our reliable energy and climate needs demand we go forward.The Sierra Club isn’t happy.
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