New CPUC proposed determination on NEM 3.0 anticipated by September 29
After many months of photo voltaic trade protests, the California Photo voltaic & Storage Affiliation (CALSSA) is anticipating the California Public Utilities Fee (CPUC) to launch its proposed determination on web metering within the state of California on or earlier than September 29. Based mostly on the 90-day window that started with the July 1, 2022 deadline for intervenor feedback on the CPUC continuing on web metering, a brand new proposed determination is anticipated to be launched on or earlier than September 29, 2022. The timeline for the brand new proposed determination just isn’t anticipated to be modified by a recent procedural ruling extending the statutory deadline for the general continuing.
The CPUC issued an preliminary proposed decision in December 2021 that may have added new grid-use fees and shifted to a web billing construction, which mixed would have resulted in decrease incentives for rooftop photo voltaic clients. In February 2022, after outcry from photo voltaic supporters, the brand new fee president Alice Reynolds requested for extra time to investigate the file and think about revisions to the proposed determination on NEM 3.0. A public remark interval ensued in May 2022, and CALSSA organized protests to maintain advocating towards any new photo voltaic charges.
Bernadette Del Chiaro, government director of CALSSA, issued the next written assertion on the anticipated proposed determination deadline:
“Photo voltaic shoppers, inexperienced employees, inexpensive housing advocates, local weather activists and clear power supporters of all kinds eagerly await a brand new proposed determination by the CPUC. Taking unpopular and dangerous concepts pushed by investor-owned utilities — like a photo voltaic tax or drastically decreasing web metering credit — off the desk can not come quickly sufficient. With rooftop photo voltaic’s very important contribution to reaching California’s clear power targets, the promise of battery storage for grid reliability, and new federal incentives for going photo voltaic, now just isn’t the time to slam the brakes on California’s progress by making photo voltaic unaffordable. As an alternative, we have to sustain our momentum in direction of bringing inexpensive rooftop photo voltaic and power storage to extra shoppers. “
