Last week, the CPUC issued the latest version of its proposal to change California’s net energy metering tariff, which involves moving to a system of net billing where the retail export compensation rate — what customers are paid for the energy they export back to the grid — is based on the value that behind-the-meter systems provide to the grid. The solar industry opposed the first proposal the CPUC issued last December, and it was eventually shelved.
The revised proposal would ease the transition to the new tariff by adopting a five-year “glide path” methodology that increases the export compensation by a fixed amount.
