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How should utilities spend your money? A debate rages

Print This is the May 13, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Unless you’re an energy nerd like me, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about how utilities spend the money you pay them each month. You used a bunch of electricity or natural gas, and that’s what you’re getting charged for. Right? Not quite! In addition to fuel costs, you’re also paying for repairs to old power plants, construction of electric wires and gas pipes, subsidies for energy-saving lightbulbs, discounts for low-income households, shareholder profit margins of about 10%.

California s rooftop solar subsidies mainly help the rich

Azizza Davis Goines With so many families and small businesses struggling to make ends meet, policymakers and regulators must ensure California achieves its clean energy objectives at the least possible cost for all, and particularly for the most vulnerable populations. One policy that flies in the face of that objective is our state’s rooftop solar subsidy program called Net Energy Metering, or NEM. The program is overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission and regulates the credits, or financial incentives, given to homeowners to put rooftop solar on their homes. The outdated, 25-year-old program is contributing to higher electric rates across California and increasing the bills of customers without solar, including small businesses, renters, low-income Californians and seniors on fixed incomes, by roughly $3 billion a year. This cost shift is not consistent with state law and needs to be fixed.

Rooftop solar subsidy program needs reform

With so many families and small businesses struggling to make ends meet, policymakers and regulators must ensure California achieves its clean energy objectives at the least possible cost for all, and particularly for the most vulnerable populations. One policy that flies in the face of that objective is our state’s rooftop solar subsidy program called Net Energy Metering, or NEM. The program is overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission and regulates the credits, or financial incentives, given to homeowners to put rooftop solar on their homes. The outdated, 25-year-old program is contributing to higher electric rates across California and increasing the bills of customers without solar, including small businesses, renters, low-income Californians and seniors on fixed incomes, by roughly $3 billion a year. This cost shift is not consistent with state law and needs to be fixed.

California s dilemma: How to control skyrocketing electric rates while building the grid of the future

California s dilemma: How to control skyrocketing electric rates while building the grid of the future
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