To the editor: I agree with columnist Sammy Roth that the controversy relating to internet metering for legacy rooftop photo voltaic is pointless (“Column: California’s rooftop solar infighting is a colossal waste of time,” March 6). However extra dialogue must be centered on incentives for future rooftop photo voltaic.
My spouse and I not too long ago put in photo voltaic panels together with a battery backup. This method permits us to simply energy our dwelling with out taking any energy from the grid. As well as, throughout the noon when the solar is shining the brightest, as a substitute of promoting energy to the grid, I cost our electrical automobile.
In consequence our electrical invoice has dropped from near $300 to $70 a month, plus having our automotive being pushed with out gasoline prices. These financial savings, plus the 30% tax credit score for our photo voltaic set up, make our funding nicely price it.
What is required is a method to assist owners with out the means to provide you with the capital for the preliminary set up. No different incentives are obligatory.
Karl Reitz, San Clemente
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To the editor: California utilities have a legitimate level — in fact constructing and working the grid prices cash and offers worth. If prospects pay just for power consumed, these prices usually are not essentially lined. At the very least Southern California Edison and Pacific Fuel & Electrical already successfully invoice some prospects for grid use by way of “demand expenses” in some electrical energy tariff schedules.
A good answer would appear easy: Cost all prospects, together with residential, in two items — a month-to-month price for grid connection and a separate cost for internet power consumed. That might rebut any logical cause to remove true internet metering.
Bob Wieting, Simi Valley
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To the editor: The ability utilities are in a demise spiral. Each one who installs photo voltaic is much less cash they make, so the utilities unfold misinformation and blame the photo voltaic customers for the ability value hikes. The utilities are merely defending their backside line on the expense of us all. The extra the costs rise, the extra folks set up photo voltaic and the much less cash the utilities make. So the utilities make photo voltaic costlier and blame photo voltaic for his or her value will increase to guard their backside traces. California residences want extra distributed photo voltaic for resilience and to guard the setting.
Doug Macmillan, Torrance
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To the editor: We have to broaden, not penalize, incentives for photo voltaic panels.
Edward Bravo, Walnut
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To the editor: Renewable power protects us from provide disruptions, value volatility, navy vulnerability and the storms, droughts, wildfires and warming, rising and acidifying oceans attributable to our fossil gasoline use. Fossil gasoline use is like shopping for an affordable printer and being caught with shopping for overpriced ink for the lifetime of the printer. Photo voltaic installations can assure electrical energy at pennies per kWh for 25 years!
Tom Hazelleaf, Seal Seaside
