Traffic congestion, pollution, and high commute costs were causing us severe headaches before the pandemic. Our migraines will return when we go back to work, unless we pursue alternatives to driving alone in our gas cars. Here’s a safe, less polluting, less...
On December 15, 2016, PG&E reached its 5% cap for net energy metering (“NEM 1.0″) — the program/tariff that solar customer-generators have been using to offset their annual electricity bills. For the next few years, net metered projects will be...
Since I last wrote to you, much has happened in my solar world. The outlook for solar was quite gloomy at the beginning of 2015. We (Californians) expected net energy metering (NEM) to sunset in 2016/2017 – see current and projected levels here; we expected it to be...
California’s net energy metering (NEM) program will end when a utility reaches its 5% cap or on July 1, 2017, whichever occurs first. The 5% cap translates into 2,409 MW of NEM-interconnected systems for PG&E, 2,240 MW for SCE, and 607 MW for SDG&E. Here...
In my last email/blog, I described how net energy metering, meter aggregation, and virtual net metering have allowed us, as utility customers / generators, to produce and move electricity more intelligently than we could before. This email describes how Community...
Remember this sentence from my last blog? “Current NEM customers and those who will have interconnected their systems before the earlier of their utility reaching its 5% NEM cap and July 1, 2017 are called NEM Transition customers. ” The utilities...
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