Proposal to reduce financial incentives for installing rooftop solar creates fierce political fight.
Although the 2022 legislative session has just begun, it already has high-profile battles underway over whether public school students should be required to have COVID-19 vaccinations and whether the state should embrace single-payer medical care.
With that broad franchise, PUC decrees affect the finances of virtually every household and business in the state. It now faces one of the most heated conflicts in its history — a utility-backed proposal to reduce the financial incentives for installing rooftop solar panels, primarily the right to sell excess solar energy back to utilities, dubbed Net Energy Metering or NEM.
The opposition, funded mostly by solar panel manufacturers and sellers, contends that it’s a grab by utilities that will retard the growth of solar power and make it more difficult for the state to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals. As with so many big issues these days, Gov. Gavin Newsom is the man in the middle. The opposition was buoyed, therefore, when Newsom indicated this month that he wants changes in the PUC’s draft.
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