Comments on: CALSSA plans protests for first CPUC meeting after reopening NEM 3.0 record https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/05/calssa-plans-protests-first-cpuc-meeting-after-reopening-record/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Sebra Leaves https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/05/calssa-plans-protests-first-cpuc-meeting-after-reopening-record/#comment-130473 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:08:21 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=98742#comment-130473 I think only a corporate loving government entity would consider breaking a functioning system that saves fossil fuels, currently in short supply, by taking advantage of free solar energy. Is the Governor smart enough to support the millions of solar power owners who have invested in a system that works? What does it take to remove the constant threat of overturning a working system?

]]>
By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/05/calssa-plans-protests-first-cpuc-meeting-after-reopening-record/#comment-130360 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:26:51 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=98742#comment-130360 “In San Francisco hundreds of solar supporters are expected to line up at the CPUC headquarters to deliver public comments. In Los Angeles, solar supporters will give “public comments” on stage to a mock dais of CPUC commissioners, while thousands of attendees record their own video testimonials to submit to the CPUC. Combined, Thursday’s actions are expected to be the largest ever submission of live and video-recorded public comments in CPUC history.

I understand the process and yet see no mention of submitted written or e-mail responses to go into the public record for (all time). This media constriction directed towards phone in, or video may or may not be admissible in a court of law in some future class action lawsuit, and also might not be legal under the Brown Act in public meetings. The “so called” NEM 3.0, which is a type of corporate electricity/energy company oligarchy. Just calling this NEM, Net Energy Metering is a misnomer. When the final destination is forcing signed PPAs from actual net metering into net billing and the wholesale market. This ignores the (worth) of a distributed solar PV and perhaps smart ESS on one’s home or business and relegates the system to the wholesale energy market. This leaves the IOU electric utilities with “avoided costs” they are not passing on to the non-solar PV adopters in the retail sector.

]]>