Editorial: Don’t slash incentives for California rooftop solar
LA TimesA crew with the nonprofit GRID Alternatives installs rooftop solar panels at a home in Watts in June. Sweeping changes being sought by utility companies and their allies would make going solar more expensive for regular people and undermine the nation’s largest, most robust rooftop market. Reaching California’s clean-energy goals and confronting climate change will require both large-scale solar farms and continued growth in rooftop solar. They should not give in to the state’s three biggest power companies, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, whose proposals to reduce credits would roughly triple the time it would take for solar customers to make back their investments in rooftop panels, and would also charge them a fixed monthly fee that would further discourage new installations. Investor-owned utility giants, with the support of the labor unions whose workers typically build large-scale solar farms, as well as ratepayer watchdogs and powerful Democratic politicians, claim big changes are needed to address fundamental inequities.
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