Connolly Bill Proposes Boost in Residential Solar Incentives

Source: Marin Independent Journal  |  By Richard Halstead

Connolly's legislation, Assembly Bill 2619, would repeal the CPUC's decision and require it to create a new rule structure based on the clean energy goals set by Senate Bill 100, which committed the state to achieving 100% clean carbon-free energy by 2045. Severin Borenstein, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said the proposed legislation would subsidize residential solar operators by raising electricity prices on everyone else. "Making other ratepayers pay for it is a hugely regressive tax," Borenstein said. "Those other ratepayers are poorer than the people who are putting in solar.”

Mark Toney, director of the Utility Reform Network, said, "I look forward to working with the author and the committee to discuss the consequences of this bill, particularly for renters and low-income homeowners who aren't able to have solar."

 
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