On Oct. 21, Vote Photo voltaic and Sierra Membership filed a Petition for Reconsideration with the Idaho Public Utilities Fee (PUC) following the partially authorised proposal by Idaho Energy to scale back compensation charges for customer-generated photo voltaic. On this petition, the organizations requested the fee to create a working group to resolve points with the rooftop photo voltaic export charges earlier than the subsequent scheduled evaluation in 2028.
Within the final order, the PUC allowed Idaho Energy to lower the photo voltaic export price by 31%, slightly than the original 60% the utility requested, and froze any additional adjustments till 2028. This resolution impacts over 14,000 households in Idaho who’ve put in photo voltaic after 2019, reducing the worth they’re paid for the surplus photo voltaic power they share again on the grid.
Within the petition, the organizations counseled the fee for limiting the proposed proportion lower by Idaho Energy; nevertheless, they name out the flawed Export Credit score Charge (ECR) technique used to calculate the photo voltaic export price. The petition requires the fee to make use of the time earlier than the subsequent price replace in 2028 to collaboratively enhance the ECR methodology.
“Households in Idaho flip to rooftop photo voltaic to realize stability and independence from unpredictable and ever-rising utility prices,” stated Kate Bowman, Vote Photo voltaic’s Inside West senior regulatory director. “Sadly, the present photo voltaic export price construction undermines that stability — it’s designed to vary from year-to-year and is biased towards utility income, leaving photo voltaic prospects uncovered to unpredictable power payments and unfair compensation charges.”
The Metropolis of Boise additionally submitted a Petition for Reconsideration on this case yesterday, asking the PUC to restrict this 12 months’s ECR lower much more and suggesting different enhancements to the methodology. All petitions that have been submitted by the Oct 21 deadline will seem on this PUC webpage soon. All events to the case, together with Idaho Energy and PUC Employees, now have seven days to file a Response to those petitions, if they want. The PUC will then deliberate and make a closing willpower on the petitions by Nov 18.
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