The founding fathers are rolling over in their grave

Yes, clear violations:
– yields substantial financial injuries to future solar users, but especially to current ones
– puts a hard stop on clean energy (excludes competition) in the least ‘free market’ manner
– can not be easily avoided (consumers are still required to remain on the grid)
– deception, misleading (saying NM 2.0 caused non-solar users to pay)
– deception..? will ‘grandfathered in’ also entail concurrently having multiple new fees & rates?

Good strategies, however, most people cannot adjust their lifestyle to accommodate a DC home running on 120 volts. Regardless, most utilities and muni’s won’t allow a complete disconnection from their grid, and if they do, they still charge an outrageous service fee “in case” the home needs to be reconnected to their grid. Greed is the underlying issue here.

100% agree. I would never have gone solar if I had to pay $8 per KW! I’d owe $60 per month! for nothing.

Yeah, but then in the winter where I live I would run out of solar and be freezing. I need the power grid from Dec – March. The rest of the year, I make my own power. But those four months, I don’t have enough, even if I had battery storage. I’d have to add more panels, and I maxed out my best spot already.

Single Firm Conduct – It is unlawful for a company to monopolize or attempt to monopolize trade, meaning a firm with market power cannot act to maintain or acquire a dominant position by excluding competitors or preventing new entry. It is important to note that it is not illegal for a company to have a monopoly, to charge “high prices,” or to try to achieve a monopoly position by aggressive methods. A company violates the law only if it tries to maintain or acquire a monopoly through unreasonable methods.

I’ll be working with the FTC to take action to stop and prevent the Grid Participation Charge provision of NEM 3.0 before this goes into effect.

As several have suggested, instead of these shell games, the largest 21st century incentive should be for 100% disconnection. Our old, overhead distribution lines, being serviced at outrageous cost, are the REAL problem. It can only get worse. On a hot Calif day, maybe half of our electric bill is paying for adding heat to the atmosphere, via transmission losses.

The Calif energy discussions should be about improved insulation and more efficient appliances. Instead of penalizing solar homeowners with patchwork, how about penalizing folks who install home a/c units over 2 tons? Installation of distribution panels over 100A, in new construction, is inexcusable, with today’s insulation and appliance inverter technology.

There should be a large incentive, more than LEED, to development of new tracts that are fire resistant and energy efficient. The microgrid (and distribution underground!) may be the future.

Ironically, it was the high grid provider rates charged to the utilities during Summer, that initially got the utilities on board for distributed energy. They were more than happy to pay a small amount of money for the establishment of solar PV, to keep them from paying the grid providers 1$ per KWH and up for Summer peaking. But that little spice to flavor their meal do to global warming, has become a mouth on fire that needs to be put out. Welcome to killing solar in CA. This outcome will be used as a “test case” for RE, just like not allowing women the ability to control their own bodies in TX.

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