Don’t change solar rules

The California Public Utilities Commission is once again proposing to tax rooftop solar users and to slash the credit that they get for sending solar energy back to the grid.

This is a disastrous policy that will make the switch to rooftop solar much less economically feasible. It’s extremely hard to understand how this policy will benefit California citizens when we as a state have committed to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in our fight against global warming.

I believe the state, working with the federal government, should be doing everything in its power to make the switch to renewable energy sources a reality.

After all, Congress just passed and President Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates hundreds of billions of dollars for renewable energy.

The California Public Utilities Commission’s proposed action makes it more difficult for homeowners and business owners who want to switch to solar.

Finally, rooftop solar is a way to build resiliency into our electric grid. Rather than relying on power plants to produce the energy we need, rooftop solar is a good way for communities to provide their own distributed sources of energy.