Comments on: California Public Advocates Office suggests changes for legacy NEM customers

By: Grace Malley

Grace Malley — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:47:12 +0000

The POC paper does not address the cost avoidance of additional power plants that solar rooftop customers provide to the grid, which I continue to read that solar rooftops provide 10% of the total grid use. Also, if the power is purchased from solar rooftop customers by the utilities at the market value (NEM 1.0) or below (NEM 2.0 and NEM 3.0), why is the cost burden displaced from the utility companies to a consumer who is trying their best to go green with a solar rooftop. This is just plain bad logic and bad math by POC.

By: George McElroy

George McElroy — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:08:13 +0000

The PAO should have reviewed their proposal with legal counsel prior to release. Legacy NEM customers executed 20-year service agreements/contracts with the power companies. The terms & conditions of fully executed agreements/contracts CANNOT unilaterally be changed by either party UNLESS ALL THE PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT AGREE TO THE MODIFICATIONS. This is basic contact law. An Administrative Law Judge blocked previous efforts to shorten legacy NEM agreements/contracts for this reason.

By: Barry Cinnamon

Barry Cinnamon — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:19:28 +0000

Take a look at the equations and you’ll understand why the cost shift argument is compete BS. They take the average compensation rate and subtract out the utilities’ calculation of the Avoided Cost of solar. However, when they calculate the avoided cost they DO NOT INCLUDE transmission, distribution, profit and environmental benefit costs — only the cheap generation costs from remote solar and wind farms. On the other hand, all customers pay for these charges. If you plug in the correct values of these Avoided Costs, solar actually SAVES all customers even if they don’t have solar.

By: Travis Winn

Travis Winn — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:01:50 +0000

Outrageous, punish 2,000,000 early adopters and blame us for taking the first steps, when you are having to pay for your mistakes of causing wildfires. People need to stand up to this corporate greed and welfare. California should nationalize the big PGE, SCE and other big ones, and then decentralize it with rooftop production and subsities instead of getting people to sign up for 25 year contracts with shady solar companies.