The Public Advocates Office (PAO) issued a response November 25, 2024 to M.Cubed’s critique of the PAO report issued August 22, 2024 asserting that rooftop solar customers had created an $8.5 billion annual “cost shift” to other ratepayers. M.Cubed’s analysis walked through the PAO analysis step by step and documented the flaws and errors in that analysis, arriving at the conclusion rooftop customers had created a net benefit of $1.5 billion per year in 2024. Here, we reply to the PAO’s flawed assessment.

It is readily apparent that the PAO did not examine the workpapers issued by M.Cubed supporting the calculations. Instead, the PAO generally asserted with no additional evidence that it was correct in all ways. Again, there is no supporting analysis beyond three simplistic calculations to back up the original claim.