To the editor: I agree with columnist Sammy Roth that the controversy concerning web 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 lately put in photo voltaic panels together with a battery backup. This technique permits us to simply energy our residence with out taking any energy from the grid. As well as, through the noon when the solar is shining the brightest, as a substitute of promoting energy to the grid, I cost our electrical automobile.
Because of this our electrical invoice has dropped from near $300 to $70 a month, plus having our automobile being pushed with out gas prices. These financial savings, plus the 30% tax credit score for our photo voltaic set up, make our funding nicely value it.
What is required is a means to assist householders with out the means to give you the capital for the preliminary set up. No different incentives are needed.
Karl Reitz, San Clemente
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To the editor: California utilities have a legitimate level — after all constructing and working the grid prices cash and supplies worth. If prospects pay just for power consumed, these prices should not essentially lined. Not less than Southern California Edison and Pacific Gasoline & Electrical already successfully invoice some prospects for grid use through “demand fees” 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 charge for grid connection and a separate cost for web power consumed. That may rebut any logical cause to get rid of true web metering.
Bob Wieting, Simi Valley
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To the editor: The ability utilities are in a loss of life 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 dearer and blame photo voltaic for his or her value will increase to guard their backside strains. California residences want extra distributed photo voltaic for resilience and to guard the atmosphere.
Doug Macmillan, Torrance
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To the editor: We have to develop, 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 gas use. Fossil gas use is like shopping for an inexpensive 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 Seashore
