California Deserves a Fairer System.
It’s time to
Non-Solar Customers Paid
$8.5 Billion in 2024
to Subsidize Solar Customers
Electric Bills Keep Getting Higher.
California’s outdated Net Energy Metering program (NEM) forces non-solar customers to pay excessive subsidies to early adopters, driving up electric bills for millions.
$8.5 billion in extra costs were shifted to non-solar customers in 2024.
That’s a 150% increase since 2021.
What Energy Experts Are Saying
“California’s main rooftop solar incentive program (Net Energy Metering) will cost customers without solar an estimated $8.5 billion by the end of 2024, a figure that has more than doubled since 2021. … As the cost shift grows, it leads to higher retail electricity rates for all customers, which disproportionately affects non-solar customers who are not benefiting from the financial incentives of solar programs.”
“Today’s rates for net metering were established when solar power was just beginning to take off, at a time when solar needed to be incentivized because of its high installation cost. … [T]he retail rates—and thus, the value of the net metering credits—have doubled or tripled. So today, utilities effectively pay rooftop solar users five times what that energy is worth in California.”
“As higher and higher electricity prices have meant customers would save more and more for each solar panel installed, the system hasn’t been saving any more money per panel when they do, and those extra costs have been shifted onto customers who don’t have solar.”