I wrote this article (with editorial assistance) in the San Francisco Chronicle on how California regulators and policy makers are looking to the wrong “villain” as the root of California’s high electricity rates. The problem is derived directly from utility spending which has increased one-to-one with rate increases.
We have published a deeper analysis of this issue in a white paper, and I have written other posts that discuss deeper issues and responses to rebuttals elsewhere on this blog.
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The key provision in AB 942 that would have ended a customer’s NEM 1 or 2 contract when the house is sold was amended out of the bill in a Senate hearing. That was the last challenge to existing NEM agreements. https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/statement/2025/07/big-win-clean-energy-sen-becker-and-others-scrap-anti-rooftop-solar
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I read your article in the chronicle. first of all thank you. I don’t have solar but my brother does and he blames everything on the low income receiving the benefits. Thanks again for your work, knowledge and insight
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