In March, three major California utilities proposed new charges and a reduction in a key benefit for solar customers. PG&E (PCG), Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to allow them to charge customers who have solar panels monthly fees: both a flat charge and a "grid access" charge per kilowatt.
For the average 5 kilowatt system on a California home, the grid access charge could rise to more than $50 a month, and the flat monthly fees would range from $12.02 to $24.10 depending on the utility. That's $74.10 per month!. And that's not all. The utilities want to reduce the fees from a system known as net metering that pays solar users for power they send back to the grid during the day.
A reduction in that fee would also hurt the economics of solar, and make it harder to convince customers to switch from traditional utilities. The new net metering rules would be imposed on new customers, not existing ones. An inverter (either one central unit or individual microinverters) switches it to AC current.
For the average 5 kilowatt system on a California home, the grid access charge could rise to more than $50 a month, and the flat monthly fees would range from $12.02 to $24.10 depending on the utility. That's $74.10 per month!. And that's not all. The utilities want to reduce the fees from a system known as net metering that pays solar users for power they send back to the grid during the day.
A reduction in that fee would also hurt the economics of solar, and make it harder to convince customers to switch from traditional utilities. The new net metering rules would be imposed on new customers, not existing ones. An inverter (either one central unit or individual microinverters) switches it to AC current.
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