A new law in California greatly expands the policy incentives for community solar that will reward projects that include battery storage.
, support for the new legislation came from a broad spectrum of interest groups — solar developers, environmental justice organizations, consumer advocates, home builders, and utility workers., California designed its version to benefit customers, developers, workers and the overall power system at the same time. In other words, it benefits almost all stakeholders rather than only some.
Simple. Store it until the price increases. Since California has an abundance of solar power in the sunny hours but desperately needs it during evening hours, market forces will push community solar projects to be built with batteries in order to allow projects to sell their power when it can command the best price. Presto.
The problem isn’t that California lacked a community solar policy; it didn’t have one that really worked. “We had some well intentioned bills in the past that just haven’t played out the way that they were intended to,” says Derek Chernow, Western regional director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access. “It just didn’t pencil out for companies to come in and go all in on community solar.”
The program does not contain subsidies to help low income families subscribe to community solar projects. Instead, those families will benefit from reduced power bills for as long as they participate in a community solar program. “It uses private capital to fund public infrastructure, taking those risks off ratepayers’ backs,” Chernow says. “Developers have every incentive to make the projects cost effective, innovative and competitive.
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