Thursday, December 15, 2022

Solar rooftop Hunger Games

The Cal PUC gives in to misguided rooftop solar advocates and special interests. Severin Borenstein

The new PD [proposed decision] recognizes that solar customers receive compensation many times higher than the value they deliver to the grid, that this excess compensation causes a large cost shift onto households without solar, and that those solar-less residents are disproportionately poorer than solar adopters. Yes, some lucky low-income households benefit from targeted solar incentives, but the vast majority won’t have solar for a decade, if ever. So their rates will pay for all of the solar subsidies, a kind of solar rooftop Hunger Games.

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