Updated plan for revamping tariffs gives current rooftop solar owners a pass, encourages battery storage.
rooftop solar owners get paid for exporting energy to the grid, depending on how much solar energy is available at the time. But, who’ll remain on their current tariff plans for 20 years after their systems hooked into the grid.
“The new recognizes that solar customers receive compensation many times higher than the value they deliver to the grid, that this excess compensation causes a large cost shift onto households without solar, and that those solar-less residents are disproportionately poorer than solar adopters,”faculty director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business .
Fans of the current system — including the companies that make, sell and install solar systems, and people who own them — argue that cost shift doesn’t really exist. Solar has saved the state billions, they say. EnergySage, a sort of Thumbtack/TaskRabbit/Lending Tree marketplace for solar systems, said that the payback period for folks installingwould increase from 6 to 7 years to 10 years, and their 20-year savings would decrease by 60-64% compared to the current system.
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