This week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted to keep the existing net metering regulation that plays a crucial role in enabling solar customers to generate power when they are not using it and “use it back” at a later time, only paying for the “net” usage on an annualized … [continued]
Following an outcry from Nevada’s existing rooftop solar owners in the wake of a Nevada Public Utilities Commission decision to eliminate existing net metering policies, the state’s utility NV Energy has proposed a grandfathering policy allowing existing solar net metering customers to continue benefiting from the original net metering rules … [continued]
The net metering battle in Nevada has not yet ended, states SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive on a company blog. In a blog post headlined, “Governor Sandoval’s PUC Owes Nevadans the Truth about Decision to Kill Rooftop Solar,” Rive wrote SolarCity will continue to fight controversial net metering legislation in Nevada. “I … [continued]
These days, all eyes seem to be on New Hampshire. Yes, Iowa is the first to caucus for our next President, but New Hampshire is the first to vote. And the voters take this role quite seriously. As such, politicians and public officials at the local and national level pay … [continued]
NV Energy, the Nevada utility benefiting most from recent net metering changes made by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, will now be a defendant in a class-action lawsuit filed by two individual PV system owners. The two plaintiffs, John Bamforth and Stanley Schone, argue that they would never have invested … [continued]
Nevada’s Public Utility Commission (PUCN) has effectively created a solar black hole for the statue’s growing distributed energy movement, voting unanimously on Wednesday against requests to delay implementation of controversial changes to metering rates. One of the sunniest states in the country with a black hole? Absolutely, if you happen … [continued]
Chalk it up to the spirit of the holiday season. Last month, in a rare display of forward-thinking, bipartisan leadership, the US Congress managed to pass an extension of the investment tax credit (ITC) — a critical renewable energy incentive — as part of the gargantuan omnibus spending bill that … [continued]
Originally published by the ECOreport It has been two years since AB 327 brought the last conflict between California’s rooftop solar industry and the state utilities to an end. California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) was left to decide whether the utilities could impose demand charges, grid access charges, installed capacity fees, … [continued]
Mississippi will become the 46th state to implement net metering for owners generating renewable electricity with solar panels or wind. However, the new policy comes with rate limitations that favor utilities. Briefly, net metering is the process by which individual utility customers who use solar panels or other renewable energy … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org. In nearly every state, an electric customer can offset their own energy consumption with on-site power generation, such as a solar panel. But for larger electric customers, net metering has a hitch. In many states, the solar array (or other power generation) has to be attached … [continued]
