Utilities Grapple with Rooftop Solar and the New Energy Landscape

Utilities Grapple with Rooftop Solar and the New Energy Landscape - Yale E360

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Utilities Grapple with Rooftop Solar and the New Energy Landscape

Florida utilities, for example, spent more than $21 million last year in support of a proposed state constitutional amendment they touted as a way to expand rooftop solar, but that actually contained provisions to kill it. Three weeks before the election, the policy director of a utility-supported think tank was recorded as he explained the deception at an energy conference. The resulting revelation helped defeat the amendment. Six months later, the Florida legislature unanimously passed laws hastening rooftop installations. Similarly, in 2015 Nevada’s Public Utilities Commission, under pressure from the state’s largest utility, NV Energy , announced drastic changes in rooftop solar rates that caused installers to stop doing business in the state. Even worse for rooftop solar owners, the rates were made retroactive, so that customers who’d been enticed into purchases with ...

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After four years of growth that averaged 63% a year, U.S. rooftop solar growth dropped to 19% last year. Learn more: [link]
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Some US utilities are adapting to increased levels of solar power in the future. [link] via @YaleE360
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