This is a long and fairly complicated story that won’t be of interest to everyone. If you don’t really care about California electricity rates, well, I don’t blame you. I probably wouldn’t care either except that I live here which means I’m stuck paying for whatever the Democrats in Sacramento and the Democrats on the Public Utilities Commission decide is best for all of us.
I’m going to try to breeze through this as simply as possible to eventually get to my point which is that California encouraged the adoption of rooftop solar for decades but because it was so successful they decided they would have to turn around and soak those same people for more money.
Let’s start at the beginning with the big picture. California has been offering a deal to those willing to install rooftop solar for more than 20 years. Under a plan called “net metering” those who installed solar would be able…
