Tag: demand charge
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Evergy’s solar demand charge was ruled illegal, but it’s still being collected
From Energy News Network: Clean energy advocates want Evergy to cease a demand charge on solar customers that was ruled illegal last spring. Five months after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled it illegal, Evergy continues to collect a demand fee from customers who own solar panels. “It’s an injustice thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Extensible Energy’s DemandEx software looks to reduce demand charges via solar system production alone
Extensible Energy is billing its new software as a service (SaaS) solution, DemandEx, as a “virtual battery” — an inexpensive alternative to commercial storage as a method for reducing demand charges and increasing ROI for commercial solar projects. Extensible says DemandEx easily integrates into new or existing commercial solar systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Massachusetts bill passes to stop Eversource demand charge but doesn’t address net metering
Massachusetts lawmakers passed An Act to Advance Clean Energy yesterday that will pretty much do what it says, with one really important victory for the solar industry, and one potential setback. The victory was a call for Eversource to revise the demand charge it tried to impose (this was theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Arizona Public Service agrees to compromise on rate plan with solar industry
Despite the polarized political climate, some compromises are still possible. Arizona was a state that seemed determined to impose damaging demand charges on its customers as its answer to the proliferation of distributed energy resources coming onto the grid, but Arizona Public Service and solar advocates were able to findRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Net metering vs. demand charges: The latest news in an endless regulatory debate
No matter how many studies come out to show the value of distributed generation and rooftop solar, there will likely be just as many that state the opposite. Every side is then able to choose the reports that state what they’d like them to state and form their agendas fromRead More — Solar Builder magazine