Within the editor: On December 15, the California Public Utilities Fee (CPUC) took down my photo voltaic panel plans.
I’m a retiree in my late 80’s hoping to put in a solar energy system in our small home the place my spouse and I’ve lived for 4 a long time. We depend on internet metering charges which can be extra prone to repay the prices earlier than I or my spouse dies.
Now, by decreasing the quantity photo voltaic clients pay for the vitality they ship to the grid, the CPUC is including years to interrupt even. However they don’t prolong life expectancy.
Can I do know the price of an array throughout the 4 month grace interval? Most likely not. The CPUC is driving middle-class individuals out of the market by requiring an elevated proportion of net-metering advantages.
The CPUC is hurting low-income households, which it claims are serving to with this new plan. The best way to align earnings charges and subsidize photo voltaic for these close to the underside?
Carl Selkin, Pasadena
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Within the editor: It is short-sighted to disincentivize photo voltaic as the brand new guidelines handed by the CPUC do, which might considerably cut back the price of vitality photo voltaic homeowners export to the grid. This extends the payback interval for brand spanking new photo voltaic to about 9 years, which is simply too lengthy for many.
When utilities set up their grid-scale batteries, the place will the renewable vitality come from? Will it come from massive photo voltaic farms and transmission traces that ratepayers can pay for?
As a substitute of disincentivizing rooftop photo voltaic, we must always spend money on native, distributed sources that cut back the quantity that utilities have to spend money on transmission traces and distant sources. This can lower your expenses for all taxpayers.
Wayne Morgan, Ventura
