According to the Energy and Policy Institute, the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) — a wholesale power agency owned by Florida’s municipal electric utilities — is trying to coordinate a $50 fixed monthly fee in a fairly transparent attempt to curb the growth of residential solar. How transparent? Well, JacobRead More

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved a Final Order in El Paso Electric Company’s rate case, the latest in the utility’s ongoing attempt to punish solar customers. The outcome will please early residential adopters of solar, who will be grandfathered in under the rates they signed up for, butRead More

Last week, we provided an update on some of the net metering debates around the country. Here is what we said about Utah: Following the example of its backward-thinking neighbors (see: Nevada, Arizona), Utah’s investor-owned utility Rocky Mountain Power (another Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary), has proposed a series of fixedRead More

As electric industry regulators prepare for their summer meeting in Nashville, a group of solar and tech organizations and companies, including TechNet, Sierra Club, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Vote Solar, The Alliance for Solar Choice, CalSEIA, and SolarCity released a paper on designing electricity rates in the eraRead More

The rate issues in Nevada didn’t improve for the solar industry as the Public Utilities Commission voted to keep the new higher rates for solar customers, only deciding to extend the phase-in over a longer period of time. The Background: The PUC approved new, higher rates in December for solar customers afterRead More