A nonsensical plan

Re “CPUC unveils solar rules overhaul” (Bay Area Nov. 12): This article says the new CPUC plan will “Fund $900 million in new incentive payments to help purchase rooftop solar systems … .” It also states that “Officials say the rule would align state policy with a grid that is bloated with solar energy during the day and over-burdened with demand for power when the sun goes down.”

What is the point of adding more rooftop solar to a system that can't yet store the excess energy already produced by the 1.5 million arrays on residences and businesses? Why isn't the CPUC giving a mandate to energy suppliers like PG&E to resolve the storage dilemma, perhaps even providing that $900 million in funding to help do that?

And why, instead of making this a financial fight between customers with solar and those without, hasn't solar become a part of what energy providers actually provide, so they can monetize this source of energy without the public having to worry about the equity of the technology?

Let them own the rooftop solar and charge for it just as they do for energy from other sources. Then everyone pays their fair share of grid costs.

Donna DeDiemar, Berkeley