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The Center for Biological Diversity, Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group on January 18 appealed<\/a>\u00a0the California Public Utilities Commission\u2019s decision to significantly slash compensation to the state\u2019s rooftop solar customers. The commission\u2019s decision will harm the ability of environmental justice communities to go green.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia is drowning in climate-driven deluges, and we have to make it easier for communities to embrace rooftop solar to survive the climate emergency,\u201d said Roger Lin, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. \u201cBy slashing the net metering program, state regulators made it even harder for environmental justice communities to get solar. We\u2019re appealing because this flies in the face of the commission\u2019s mandate to ensure that rooftop solar is accessible to low-income Californians.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December 2022 the commission\u00a0revised<\/a>\u00a0the state\u2019s net-metering plan. The new plan<\/a> abandoned a hefty solar tax but decreased the compensation rooftop solar customers earn from sending electricity they do not use back to the grid. This threatens the growing rooftop solar market and puts affordable and resilient renewable energy out of reach for most communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia\u2019s private utilities have been relentless opponents of rooftop solar for many years, because it undercuts the golden goose \u2014 new high-profit transmission line construction. They have convinced regulators of the alchemy that they are protecting the interests of lower-income customers \u2014 and not shareholder interests \u2014 by devaluing rooftop solar,\u201d said Bill Powers, an expert witness in the proceeding and a board member of the Protect Our Communities Foundation.<\/p>\n

The appeal says the commission should redo its analysis. The groups say regulators devalued rooftop solar based on flawed modeling that ignored net metering\u2019s benefits to environmental justice communities, such as decreasing the state\u2019s dependence on fossil fuels and providing local economic benefits, including new jobs. The commission also failed to analyze non-solar customer bills and ignored or underestimated harms from fossil fuel energy, particularly to low-income communities and communities of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy making residential solar economically untenable for millions of working families, the CPUC has sidelined the only competition the big utilities face. It will allow PG&E and the other power companies to keep wasting ratepayer money on misguided, high-cost infrastructure investments,\u201d said Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook, a Bay Area resident. \u201cThe CPUC needs a reset to fit an emerging new world of electric power. We now have strong competition for utilities from distributed solar, battery storage and microgrids, a technological and economic transformation the likes of which we haven\u2019t seen in more than 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commission also abandoned a $600 million equity fund aimed at getting more clean renewables to low-income communities. Regulators claimed the state\u2019s battery storage fund would achieve the same result, but Gov. Gavin Newsom recently cut that fund by 30%.<\/p>\n

Public opposition to the commission\u2019s decision is widespread. More than 125 California and national climate and equity groups representing millions of people previously\u00a0called on the governor\u2019s office to reject<\/a>\u00a0the commission\u2019s flawed analysis and maintain the state\u2019s solar credit to grow rooftop solar in environmental justice communities.<\/p>\n

News item from the Center for Biological Diversity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center for Biological Diversity, Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group on January 18 appealed\u00a0the California Public Utilities Commission\u2019s decision to significantly slash compensation to the state\u2019s rooftop solar customers. 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