These Homeowners’ PG&E Bills Reveal California’s Dramatic Shift on Solar
January 1, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle
According to Energy Institute Faculty Director Severin Borenstein and other experts in the San Francisco Chronicle, moving to battery storage will motivate solar panel users to store their own energy, rather than depending on the grid for the same function.
“‘We were on a completely unsustainable path,’ said UC Berkeley energy economist Severin Borenstein. ‘Households producing solar were compensated at the full retail price — at least double the market value of the electricity — for the quantities they sold back to the grid.’”
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