Opinion: California needs to rescue rooftop solar from the utility companies

Re “California Public Utilities Fee will get an earful about its new rooftop photo voltaic proposal” (Nov. 16): Utilities need to cease California’s photo voltaic progress. Rooftop photo voltaic shall be crippled by regulators, in the event that they cross their excessive proposal being voted on this December. Why would regulators plan to chop the credit score new photo voltaic customers get for sharing surplus photo voltaic power with the grid from a mean of 30 cents to five cents per kilowatt hour? As a result of the utility corporations have requested them to.

That’s proper, the regulators which might be supposed to guard photo voltaic and the folks of California have develop into too shut with the utility corporations they’re regulating. Gov. Newsom is the one particular person with energy to halt the assault on roof high photo voltaic. He must step in and cease this excessive proposed minimize.

We is not going to get to 100% clear power except Gov. Newsom stops this utility revenue seize.

Mona Kinkel

Encinitas

The present Internet Vitality Metering (NEM) 3.0 proposal by the California Public Utility Fee is as soon as once more a windfall for the utilities and catastrophe for California residents.

The estimation of a nine-year payback underneath the proposal is extra accurately virtually 20 years. The numbers the CPUC selected to make use of are usually not primarily based in actuality. The price of an put in system is 35 p.c greater than $3.30 per watt and if you would like a battery included, that’s one other $7,000 to $25,000 added to the price of the system.

Arguments for altering the NEM 2.0 have been debunked. Altering to NEM 3.0 is requested by the ability corporations to extend income and earnings. Apparently supported by the CPUC for political causes with out thought or look after the hundreds of individuals within the business that may lose their jobs as a consequence of political positioning by a bunch that’s appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate.

Jon Macklin

El Cajon