A committee within the California State Meeting has handed a invoice that might strip a photo voltaic mission proprietor’s net-metering compensation when a property is transferred. The Meeting Appropriations Committee has handed Assembly Bill 942, drafted by Assemblymember Lisa Calderon (D), that in its newest iteration would sever an current net-metering settlement with a utility if that property was bought to a different social gathering.
“The 20-year web metering phrases, which each photo voltaic consumer indicators, are connected to the photo voltaic system — not the property proprietor. Undermining these agreements when a house is bought or transferred strips away the worth of photo voltaic investments for middle- and working-class Californians, whereas setting a harmful precedent that California’s clear vitality commitments can’t be trusted,” stated Brad Heavner, government director of the California Photo voltaic & Storage Affiliation (CALSSA) in a press launch.
Beneath present California utility language, photo voltaic tasks are transferred to the brand new property proprietor inside its current web metering contract phrases. AB 942 was amended earlier this month, eradicating language from a earlier draft that will have decreased web metering compensation intervals from 20 to 10 years. Via AB 942, if a property bearing photo voltaic is transferred to a different proprietor, that web metering settlement can be up to date to NEM 3.0, the present web billing tariff which drastically altered compensation for photo voltaic vitality fed into the grid.
A coalition of greater than 100 advocacy teams have petitioned for the removing of AB 942, and CALSSA is joined by a number of different state teams opposing the invoice.
“The utility story that photo voltaic clients are all rich and save an excessive amount of cash is fake. Photo voltaic is predominantly adopted by working class clients searching for to stabilize utility prices. Clients signal long run leases to realize financial savings over time, and shouldn’t be thrown below the bus after having trusted what the state has till now known as a ‘assure’ of constant coverage,” Heavner stated.
After passing by the Meeting Appropriations Committee, the invoice will seem once more on the California State Meeting flooring for additional deliberation this coming Tuesday.
