In key solar decision, California rejects utility plans

The California Public Utilities Commission delivered a major win for rooftop solar and a serious blow to the utility industry Tuesday, proposing to leave mostly in place a program that encourages homes and businesses to go solar.

Southern California Edison and other utilities had lobbied the commission to slash the rates at which solar customers are paid for the electricity they generate, and to approve new monthly charges. Under Edison's proposal, the average solar customer would have seen her or his monthly bill increase from $65 to $135 — a difference of more than $800 per year...

State regulators propose new rooftop solar fees while rejecting utility plans

State regulators proposed new fees Tuesday for rooftop solar customers but rejected several recommendations by utility companies that threatened expansion of residential and commercial solar efforts.

Under the proposal by the California Public Utilities Commission, new solar customers would face a one-time fee for connection to the electric grid. The commission estimates the fee would range from $75 to $150 per solar customer...

California Net Metering 2.0 Keeps Retail Rates for Rooftop Solar

Regulators won’t let utilities slash payments to solar-equipped customers. But there are coming changes for rooftop systems.

California regulators have proposed a future net metering regime that will preserve retail payments for residential rooftop PV.

However, the proposal would add new interconnection costs and non-bypassable charges to distributed solar systems, while also imposing new minimum bill requirements and time-of-use (TOU) rates that could complicate the solar value proposition...

BREAKING: California regulators propose to keep solar net metering, with modifications

In a proposed decision, CPUC has called for the basic aspects of net metering to be maintained after 2017, along with a small interconnection charge, a move to time-of-use rates and other tweaks.

Read more: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/breaking--california-regulators-propose-to-keep-solar-net-metering--with-modifications_100022464/#ixzz3uQcnAqB7