Comments on: California Supreme Court to review rooftop solar net metering

By: Alfred Koerblein

Alfred Koerblein — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:15:17 +0000

As a German, I don’t understand why it is not possible to find a compromise in California between net metering 2.0 (with payback in less than 10 years) and net metering 3.0 (with payback no less than 15 years). Wouldn’t reducing the feed-in tariff by 50% instead of 80% be a possible middle way?

By: King Kahuna

King Kahuna — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:42:11 +0000

If the Supreme Court of California has any sense of credibility, this will be fixed.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:43:02 +0000

NET meeting was the stupidiest thing to allow in the first place. Many states did the same thing. If we want to encourage going green the more you should not be limited on what is sold back to utility company.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:57:32 +0000

This isn’t just about single-family residential rooftop solar. It’s much bigger. Utility monopoly shareholder solutions to the renewable energy transition are all based on very large utility scale generation & storage installations that they bill to customers. That requires more new &/or upgrades to expensive transmission infrastructure, again, billed to customers…..That’s the utility monopoly shareholder business model.

Large multi-family residential & commercial rooftop & parking lot canopy solar +stationary storage batteries +Vehicle-2-Grid EV chargers installed behind the utility meter don’t require any new utility transmission, site acquisition, other site improvement spending, or utility inter-connection & NIMBY opposition delays……..just ordinary local building permits.

By: Richard Mercer

Richard Mercer — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:04:31 +0000

Because California has the biggest rooftop solar market in the U.S., this is really hurting all the companies involved with rooftop solar.

“On Thursday, the California Solar and Storage Association unveiled data showing a 77 to 85 percent drop in rooftop solar projects since April. That’s when the California Public Utilities Commission’s controversial ’net metering 3.0′ decision.”

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/californias-rooftop-solar-policy-is-killing-its-rooftop-solar-industry

By: Gregory Sittler

Gregory Sittler — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:19:24 +0000

Is anyone in the CA legislature listening to anyone besides their campaign contributors? Does anyone care what we want if we’re not handing them money to hear us? How much does it co$t to get the hearing aids turned on? How long do we have to be bullied by the rich shareholders into doing the wrong thing to our planet just to provide them with bloody profits? Why can’t we get to doing the right thing for everybody, instead of just the PROFITABLE thing for the few?

By: Randall P Baker

Randall P Baker — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:50:42 +0000

The new rates of salary etc being given to utilities is outrageous! Did you ever hear of a utility manager getting $17 MILLION in annual pay! I don’t know who approved this as Pge actually burned some cities and killed many people! Who granted this and why! No normal business would allow this! The governor should address this and ALL new fees rolled back. This is what is needed asap!! Randy Baker Danville