Opponents of the controversial NEM 3.0 decision — including a group in San Diego — will focus on legal challenge they recently filed
The California Public Utilities Commission has turned down a request by three environmental groups to hold another hearing about the commission’s controversial decision to revamp the rules affecting theBill Powers, a San Diego engineer and board member of the, said the commission’s rebuff was expected and the three environmental organizations are focusing their efforts to overturn the solar decision in court.
In one of its key provisions, the decision ruled that rooftop solar customers would no longer be credited at the retail rate of electricity when their systems generate excess energy but be paid at the “actual avoided cost.” Among their critiques, the three environmental groups said the CPUC’s decision violated a statute in the Public Utility Code that says Net Energy Metering rules must ensure that “customer-sited renewable distributed generation continues to grow sustainably.”
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