Tag: rates
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Florida Municipal Power Agency is trying to coordinate a $50 fixed fee to curb residential solar
According to the Energy and Policy Institute, the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) — a wholesale power agency owned by Florida’s municipal electric utilities — is trying to coordinate a $50 fixed monthly fee in a fairly transparent attempt to curb the growth of residential solar. How transparent? Well, JacobRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Texas rate case settled — what’s the outcome for solar customers?
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved a Final Order in El Paso Electric Company’s rate case, the latest in the utility’s ongoing attempt to punish solar customers. The outcome will please early residential adopters of solar, who will be grandfathered in under the rates they signed up for, butRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Update: Utah solar customers avoid rate changes for now
Last week, we provided an update on some of the net metering debates around the country. Here is what we said about Utah: Following the example of its backward-thinking neighbors (see: Nevada, Arizona), Utah’s investor-owned utility Rocky Mountain Power (another Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary), has proposed a series of fixedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How to design rates for a distributed grid? This paper has some answers
As electric industry regulators prepare for their summer meeting in Nashville, a group of solar and tech organizations and companies, including TechNet, Sierra Club, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Vote Solar, The Alliance for Solar Choice, CalSEIA, and SolarCity released a paper on designing electricity rates in the eraRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Nevada PUC votes for slower phase-in of higher rates, pleasing no one
The rate issues in Nevada didn’t improve for the solar industry as the Public Utilities Commission voted to keep the new higher rates for solar customers, only deciding to extend the phase-in over a longer period of time. The Background: The PUC approved new, higher rates in December for solar customers afterRead More — Solar Builder magazine