{"id":458201,"date":"2021-03-15T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=458201"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:50:20","slug":"proposal-to-modernize-rooftop-solar-program-would-support-customer-equity-and-help-sustain-californias-clean-energy-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/proposal-to-modernize-rooftop-solar-program-would-support-customer-equity-and-help-sustain-californias-clean-energy-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to Modernize Rooftop Solar Program Would Support Customer Equity and Help Sustain California\u2019s Clean Energy Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Proposal to Modernize Rooftop Solar Program Would Support Customer Equity and Help Sustain California\u2019s Clean Energy Progress<\/b><\/p>\n

Customers Without Rooftop Solar Are Paying $3 Billion More Annually for Electric Grid Services on Behalf of Solar Customers<\/i><\/p>\n

Proposal Does Not Impact Existing Rooftop Solar Customers<\/i><\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO & SAN DIEGO & ROSEMEAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nToday, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) together proposed to modernize California\u2019s 25-year-old rooftop solar program to support customer equity and help continue California\u2019s success toward a clean energy future.\n<\/p>\n

\nSubmitted today to the California Public Utilities Commission, the joint proposal lays out a new approach for compensating future rooftop solar customers who export excess solar energy to the electric grid. This proposal would only apply to future, new rooftop solar customers, not current solar customers.<\/b><\/p>\n

\nThe heart of this modernization effort addresses an unfair and growing inequity stemming from earlier versions of the rooftop solar Net Energy Metering (NEM) program. This cost shift leads to electricity customers without solar systems paying about $3 billion more annually in their electricity bills<\/b> to subsidize existing rooftop solar customers. This represents each customer without solar paying as much as $240 extra every year, or more for some customers with higher energy needs. The subsidy represents the costs of the electric grid that solar customers use, but for which they do not pay. Oftentimes, those left paying these higher costs are lower-income customers.i<\/sup><\/b><\/p>\n

\nThis proposal to modernize the 25-year-old NEM program would accomplish the following objectives:\n<\/p>\n