““By excluding key benefits, the total export credit rate according to Idaho Power is 2.3-4 cents per kilowatt. However, a study conducted by Crossborder Energy yields 18.3 cents per kilowatt — a significant increase,” said Sherlyn Messilas Becerra, a Climate Justice League youth activist. “What this tells the community of Idaho is that Idaho Power prioritizes its profit over people.””

These electric utilities ignore the “avoided costs” the utility doesn’t have to pay like cost of system components, installation, permitting, and right of ways, buying property to put the system on and financing with principle and interest, insurance, maintenance and repair of the system. All these things are left on the backs of the solar PV adopters without fair and impartial consideration of avoided costs and having a local distributed energy generation system online during peak use times of the day. More distributed energy generation less transformer step losses, more efficient source of local energy, less need to run remote generation facilities to meet grid load demands.