Comments on: CPUC Voted: California’s Net Billing Tariff (NEM 3.0) is Now Final https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/01/cpuc-voted-californias-net-billing-tariff-nem-3-0-is-now-final/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/01/cpuc-voted-californias-net-billing-tariff-nem-3-0-is-now-final/#comment-139000 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:37:59 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=100913#comment-139000 ” It also still includes a $14-$16 monthly charge from the mandatory switch to a time-of-use rate for solar customers, uses the Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) to determine and calculate 576 different NEM credit values in a year, and makes no retroactive changes for NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0 customers.”

Right there the so called ACC used to calculate 576 different NEM credit values in a year. This is getting so complicated, who has the chops to monitor and assure the “correctness” of the program throughout the year. The CPUC, the CEC, CAISO? Yeah, right.

Use the programs while they are in force as a kind of energy savings account. Get as much smart ESS with expandable energy storage battery modules to add like a savings account for the energy you use each day. Install solar PV to help in the daily energy needs by storing and time shifting the energy to the TOU rate spiking periods of the day. Sometimes it is good to be agnostic and it is particularly good when you don’t need the rote IOU electric utility for every kWh you use in a 24 hour period. California CPUC says NEM 3.0, residents answer to this is installing enough smart ESS capacity to become grid agnostic to allow control over their own energy needs, generation and costs no matter what the electric utilities do.

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