Thread by @solar_rights

This is a good step, but the @californiapuc will undermine itself if they make it impossible for everyday people to reduce the burden on the grid with rooftop solar and batteries. #SaveSolar

https://twitter.com/californiapuc/status/1547685941967392770

Rooftop solar even w/out batteries significantly reduces the burden on the grid all the way to 6pm during the summer, well within the peak demand zone, as this chart from August 14, 2020 shows.

Rooftop solar with batteries can do even more to reduce stress on the grid, and accelerate the retirement of dirty, polluting peaker plants.

Here’s some great press coverage of the future that we can build
latimes.com/environment/st…

As well as this New York Times story from the same period on how state officials begged solar + storage users to discharge their batteries to the grid during a massive blackout nytimes.com/2020/09/03/bus…

Two years later, we're looking at the prospect of a Solar Tax and other changes that will collapse the rooftop solar market, just like those same changes affected Nevada and Hawaii several years ago.

Bottom line: this initiative is great IF CPUC applies its principles consistently to rooftop solar and doesn't bow to utility propaganda and lobbying. #SaveSolar