{"id":107168,"date":"2024-08-27T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/\/?p=107168"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:01:34","slug":"california-public-advocates-office-changes-nem-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/\/2024\/08\/california-public-advocates-office-changes-nem-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"California Public Advocates Office suggests changes for legacy NEM customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California Public Advocates Office (PAO) in late August published a factsheet on net metering<\/a> that asserts the state’s rooftop solar incentives will cost customers without solar an estimated $8.5 billion by the end of the year. The PAO is a state entity tasked with advocating for the lowest possible bills for customers of California’s regulated utilities.<\/p>\n

The PAO says that although the new NEM 3.0 net billing tariff (NBT) is an improvement on previous net metering programs, it doesn’t address the continuing “cost-shift” from legacy NEM 1.0 and 2.0 customers to non-solar ratepayers.<\/p>\n

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The PAO’s calculation of cost-shift.<\/p><\/div>\n

The PAO suggests the state take one of two actions in response \u2014 provide NEM 2.0 customers with compensation set at the electric rates in effect at the time of the adoption of the incentives, or convert NEM 1.0 and 2.0 accounts to the NBT either upon sale of a home or after 10 years of interconnection.<\/p>\n

California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) executive director Bernadette Del Chiaro revealed to Solar Power World<\/em> that she’s not concerned about the implications of the report on California solar policy, but she is troubled by the PAO’s position on solar.<\/p>\n

“The California Public Advocates Office (PAO) recently published a factsheet that parrots utility talking points about rooftop solar, regurgitating a grossly inaccurate cost of rooftop solar in order to advocate for changing contract terms for two million solar consumers. The PAO\u2019s unprecedented anti-solar activism is misguided and wrong,” CALSSA said in a press statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The California Public Advocates Office (PAO) in late August published a factsheet on net metering that asserts the state’s rooftop solar incentives will cost customers without solar an estimated $8.5 billion by the end of the year. 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