Power companies are lobbying to make rooftop solar more expensive

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Whether for profit or to avoid widespread rate hikes, the outcome might make generating your own electricity less appealing.

—when net metering credits slash customers’ monthly bills, less money goes into maintaining infrastructure like power lines. This, utility companies say, forces them to raise electricity prices on those without solar panels.But Rosenfeld says that utilities are more motivated by profit than by fairness. Investor-owned monopoly utilities, such as those in California, often make a guaranteed fixed rate of return from the state on their capital investments.

Though larger-scale installations of renewable energy are going to be necessary to meet the bulk of demand in a clean energy-powered economy, rooftop solar can speed up that transition and provide added benefits. “Rooftop solar provides so many benefits, including clean electricity,” says Bronte Payne, the director of Environment America’s solar campaigns. “It doesn’t take up extra open space because you can put it on people’s rooftops, it will build a more resilient grid.

 

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Never underestimate the power of capitalism to screw everyone else.

On the one hand go green on the other hand make it more expensive. The average Joe just can't win

Of course. On site generation, storage and distribution is the end of their current way of business.

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