These cost benefit of net metering reports are as useless as expert witnesses in civil litigation. Even though Nevada has already had a study and SolarCity went and get their own study, there is now a new study from the PUC. Of course, this time the data that came from the utility showed a different result. It showed that net metering created a cost shift. This is nonsense but it gives those that try to lobby against solar something to hold on to while they are citing ‘facts’. It is interesting that the reports have a swing of almost $50million from positive to negative. Nobody ends up reading these things because the headline number is all that people will use and it will be used. Just as ‘analysts’ write documents that only use the data that gets them to the headline that will sell the most copies, legislators that need a reason to be against solar will use this report.
- Las Vegas Review Journal: Rooftop solar shifts $36M a year to nonsolar ratepayers in Nevada, study says
- PV-Magazine: SolarCity offers $124 million in high-interest bonds
- PV-Tech: Canadian Solar revises capacity expansion plans for third time in 2016
- NRDC: Green Banks & ‘big switch’ to a low carbon future
- CleanTechnica: Apple Moves One Step Closer 100 Renewable Energy Worldwide
- EDF: Five Things You Need to Know Before the Clean Power Plan Oral Argument
- Rocky Mountain Institute: Changing Lives with Solar Microgrids
- Vox: Is it useful to think of climate change as a “world war”?
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Have a great day!
Yann