A looming problem and a proposal.
California is staging a COVID-comeback. Vaccination rates are on the rise. Public schools are slowly opening up. My favorite little league baseball team is back on the field.
Go Pirates!
I can see light at the end of my pandemic tunnel. But I’m going to make it through this with my family, my job, and my health intact (sanity not so much). Others are not as fortunate.
Unpaid energy bills are one measure of the economic pressure that some households are under. Since the pandemic took hold, these bills have been piling up. The graph below tracks arrears – wonkspeak for unpaid electricity and gas bills – households owe to California’s largest utility PG&E.
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Later this year, the California Public Utilities Commission expects to update the rules over how owners of rooftop solar systems are compensated and if the past is any indication, the debate will be a fierce one between the state’s utilities and the solar industry.
Monday marked the day the two sides as well as other interested parties in the debate had to turn in proposals to the commission concerning net energy metering.
The big three investor-owned utilities San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric turned in a joint proposal that looks to resolve their complaints that net energy metering results in a “cost-shift” that unfairly burdens customers who do not have solar installations at their homes and businesses. “The structure to compensate solar customers is in desperate need of reform,” said Scott Crider, SDG&E’s chief customer officer.