Rooftop Solar Energy Tug of War – Resolution, Part 2

The California Public Utilities Commission is clueless:

"...we agree that highly differentiated time-of-use rates will vastly improve the pricing signal to customers. These rates will incentivize them to divert energy usage to lower-priced hours when the solar system is producing and/or when charging storage, rather than using this energy at expensive times when the grid’s energy supply is constrained. As a result, rates are closer to the cost of service. This maximizes the value of the generation to all customers and to the electrical system and ensures equity among all customers."

No, the value of electricity to customers is directly proportional to its availability. Time-of-use pricing, especially "highly-differentiated" TOU, accomplishes nothing more than shift the burden of availability to electricity customers. It forces lower-income customers to either use electricity when it's least convenient, or pay a larger percentage of their hard-earned income so they don't have turn their air conditioning off when the sun goes down - even if it's still 96°F in their apartment.
CPUC commissioners and their appointer, Gavin Newsom, are privileged, entitled idiots. They should take a drive out to Paradise and talk to some of the families living in trailers, whose homes were burnt to the ground by PG&E's carelessness. Ask them if they mind paying electricity rates among the highest in the continental U.S. to fight climate change. They might be surprised to discover an entire class of Californians for whom caring about climate change is a luxury.

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I'm really not sure why they keep messing with TOU and rates there.   Even more so I have no idea why they keep trying to tack on a monthly fee to solar systems.   It makes far more sense to simply cut the net metering rate by half a penny to a penny per khwr for all customers solar, wind, water or otherwise.   They would get the same effect and it would set a level playing field for solar in general without costing anyone very much money except maybe those who have a really large solar system like 50 plus KW.  But, even then, it achieves the goal of primarily affecting those larger customers without penalizing those on fixed incomes etc. and it doesn't add pain to those who might have a solar system that's basically down due to a failure of component that's going to take 3 months to replace.