In other news, the CA Legislature wrote a bill in 2022 that would allow all the private utilities to essentially destroy the rooftop solar industry by gouging the consumer directly and essentially make your electric bill an income tax [1]. The way it's worded, none of the exported energy from a solar install will offset any of the connection costs (only the lowered rates).
Meanwhile, PG&E gets to keep paying its investors before its victims.
California can't get past its corruption, and people wonder why we can't meet our climate goals.
All net emission schemes in California for solar are essentially subsidized from non solar customers (generally a poorer, more consumption conscious population) to solar customers. NEM2 was outrageously bad but nem3 is still a subsidy.
Removing those schemes will make people install batteries instead, which will have a bigger impact on co2 reductions
Why is it that other states have true 1:1 net metering while NEM3 is essentially less than 1:3?
The real problem is that our grid is criminal underdeveloped. I get they need connection fees (as opposed to the $0 we pay now) but $128/mo for a connection charge for a high income earner (read: entry level dev) is pure theft compared to the average for other states with connection fees ($11/mo).
California should nationalize PG&E, wipe out its investor payback schemes and start running things properly.
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In other news, the CA Legislature wrote a bill in 2022 that would allow all the private utilities to essentially destroy the rooftop solar industry by gouging the consumer directly and essentially make your electric bill an income tax [1]. The way it's worded, none of the exported energy from a solar install will offset any of the connection costs (only the lowered rates).
Meanwhile, PG&E gets to keep paying its investors before its victims. California can't get past its corruption, and people wonder why we can't meet our climate goals.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/comments/12hobyp/california_a...
All net emission schemes in California for solar are essentially subsidized from non solar customers (generally a poorer, more consumption conscious population) to solar customers. NEM2 was outrageously bad but nem3 is still a subsidy.
Removing those schemes will make people install batteries instead, which will have a bigger impact on co2 reductions
Why is it that other states have true 1:1 net metering while NEM3 is essentially less than 1:3?
The real problem is that our grid is criminal underdeveloped. I get they need connection fees (as opposed to the $0 we pay now) but $128/mo for a connection charge for a high income earner (read: entry level dev) is pure theft compared to the average for other states with connection fees ($11/mo).
California should nationalize PG&E, wipe out its investor payback schemes and start running things properly.