Comments on: America’s Net Metering War http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/08/americas-net-metering-war/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/08/americas-net-metering-war/#comment-185668 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:16:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=57437#comment-185668 The utilities are no doubt acting in bad faith in many of these conflicts (see also Spain). But American greens should follow their German cousins in supporting capacity markets, in which utilities would be paid for maintaining rarely used and therefore high-cost backup generators or storage or geothermal. Ultimately ratepayers will have to pay for this through higher standing charges.

Compensating utilities for their stranded coal assets is another matter. They made the wrong call and their shareholders should take a hit.

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