The California Public Utilities Fee voted to approve a revised proposed choice on the state’s group photo voltaic program on Might 30 that photo voltaic advocates warned wouldn’t appropriate course for a failing sector.
Derek Chernow, Western Regional Director for the Coalition for Group Photo voltaic Entry (CCSA), issued the next response to the CPUC’s vote on the way forward for the state’s group photo voltaic program:
“In the present day’s Fee vote ignored the need of the California Legislature and the broad coalition of ratepayer, fairness, environmental, labor, agricultural, and enterprise teams who’ve demanded a purposeful group photo voltaic program for greater than a decade.
“By accepting the utilities’ proposal, the Fee has chosen to double down on failed packages that haven’t — and won’t — set up a viable group photo voltaic market that would supply reasonably priced vitality to Californians that want aid probably the most.
“It’s additionally additional proof that California’s utilities are doing the whole lot they’ll to stifle distributed vitality era as a way to tighten their grip on the state’s electrical energy grid.
“The vote solidifies California’s place close to the underside of group photo voltaic markets nationwide, ceding management to different states to really democratize photo voltaic vitality and fulfill nationwide vitality fairness objectives.
“Importantly, this vote was not unanimous. We want to thank Commissioner Darcie Houck for her vote and remarks for the way this Determination will fail to succeed in group photo voltaic’s full potential.
“Undeterred, we are going to proceed our efforts to create a group photo voltaic program that places individuals above utilities… and one California will be pleased with.”
