There have been attacks on solar net metering for a decade or more, due to the fact that net metering shifts revenue and profit from utilities to individual homeowners. An extreme attack on California solar net metering arose in the past year, but then recently stalled and got punted indefinitely after a lot of backlash. We’re not yet sure how it will resurface. Listen in as solar industry expert Alex Williams of Solar Energy Partners talks to CleanTechnica’s Zach Shahan about these topics.
Note that it is the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that is tasked with managing regulations such as solar net metering, and Alex shared that all 4 of the current CPUC commissioners and current CPUC president were appointed by Gavin Newsom in the past couple of years. In simple terms, some pro-utility bad apples seem to have finagled their way onto the board and have become…