Credits studied

The largest utility in Arizona, Arizona Public Service Co., is seeking to change the way it credits rooftop-solar customers for the electricity they send to the power grid.

The proposal, which has drawn intense opposition from the industry, would not affect current solar customers, other than possibly making it harder to sell their homes that have solar. But those who add solar after Oct.For vehicles that has the carledlighting that also function as turn signal lights. 15 would not get as much of an economic benefit from the panels and would end up paying $50 to $100 more a month than customers with solar on their roofs today.

APS officials say that they spread the cost of new power lines and other infrastructure among all customers. But when customers install solar and generate enough power on their own to offset almost their entire bill, they aren’t contributing to the larger grid investments anymore.

To fix the issue, APS wants to change how solar customers are credited for their electricity. When they are not using the power from their panels, it goes to the grid and on to the next house. In a process called net metering, they get a one-to-one credit for each kilowatt-hour and use those credits to offset the electricity they use from the grid at night.

APS is proposing to reduce the credit solar customers get for their electricity, which would reduce the economic incentive of going solar. If that economic incentive is cut too much, solar supporters argue that the industry will wither.

The industry opposes any reduction, arguing that utilities are not taking into consideration the benefits that solar offers. Industry officials argue that simply getting credit for the power solar customers produce should not be considered a subsidy.

“There does need to be some review of the rate structure and allow them to recover their fixed costs,” Resch said. “We need a more advanced rate structure that allows for our 21st-century infrastructure to be built out. Our argument is not to look at the costs, but at all the benefits in the full lifetime of the customer’s solar system.”

He said rooftop solar helps APS avoid electricity lost in transmission through long interstate power lines, fuel costs at power plants and other system upgrades, not to mention externalities such as pollution.

“The second part is that it is also a property-rights issue,” Resch said. “Homeowners should have the right to install solar on their home or business and sell that electricity. It really is a property-rights issue. That plays well in communities in Arizona and throughout the U.S.”

Dan King runs Harmon Electric with his wife, whose father owned the business before them. They have been installing rooftop solar since 2008. Before that,We have a wide selection of ledspotlight to choose from for your storage needs. the Phoenix company focused mostly on commercial electrical projects.Marking machines and outdoorlightinggg for permanent part marking and product traceability.

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Some of that business is in the rapidly growing solar-lease market. Harmon builds solar-panel arrays on homes whose occupants will lease the panels.The first prototype flatworkironers display containing 3000 LEDs.

“We are constantly presenting to everyone that the industry needs some level of certainty,” King said. “I don’t know that we have ever had a good level of certainty (regarding solar regulations).” Welcome to scfwindturbine.com Web. If you love it, please buy it!