net metering

My R Street Policy Study: Electricity Market Alternatives to Regulatory Net Metering

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Institutional persistence creates some of the thorniest problems in public policy, including electricity policy. Institutions change more slowly than technology and markets, because of both  design and status quo bias, which means that dynamic processes of economic and technological change can make regulatory institutions outdated. This mismatch is showing up right now in the electricity …

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No Net Metering Without Grid Connection, No Net Metering Controversy Where Wires and Energy Products Are Unbundled

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Around the country lobbyists for utilities and solar power companies are fighting over public policy, mostly for and against reform of net metering policies.* Today, The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) trumpeted in a press release recent victories in the states of Utah and Washington over net metering reforms urged by utilities. TASC highlighted the …

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Net Metering in Indiana Sees Exciting 50 Percent Growth

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Michael Giberson From the Indianapolis Star, “More Hoosiers reap benefits of generating their own electricity“: [M]ore and more people around Indiana are starting to generate their own electricity, motivated by environmental concerns and feelings of energy independence. The arrangement is known as “net metering,” allowing customers to offset part of their energy costs and feed …

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The Solar Panels That Pay for Themselves…

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Michael Giberson From the Texas Energy and Environment Blog, reports that in New Mexico “solar panels on homes can take as little as seven years to pay for themselves in energy savings.”  The post continues: That’s faster than Texas, where even in the best economic case, solar panels take at least a decade to pay …

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California Adopts Feed-in Tariff for Distributed Wind and Solar Power Systems, with Nobel Prize Notes

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Michael Giberson Not all of the news this week is about Nobel prize surprises. The Los Angeles Times reports that California is adopting feed-in tariffs for distributed renewable power production: Under AB 920, the state Public Utilities Commission will set a rate for utilities to compensate customers whose solar or wind systems produce more power …

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