The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted 3-2 (Rulemaking 14-07-002) on January 28 to preserve solar net energy metering in the Golden State – enacting a successor tariff known as NEM 2.0 that the commission stated would continue the existing net metering structure “while making some adjustments to align the costs recovered from NEM successor customers more closely with those from non-NEM customers.”
Commissioners Mike Florio and Catherine Sandoval said they opposed the proposal at the last minute when an electricity transmission fee that appeared in the footnotes of the order was eliminated, according to the Los Angeles Times – a move that they said made the overall arrangement “too rich for the solar industry.”
