The highly anticipated California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) report on the costs of residential solar systems and net energy metering policies was released earlier this month. Net energy metering, or net metering, allows individuals who own solar panels to sell their excess power back to the utilities at a predetermined price. As expected, the report showed just how costly current net metering policies are to the average utility customer. By 2020 net metering in California will cost the state $1.1 billion per year and saddle non-solar utility customers with $359 million dollars of additional costs each year normally covered by solar users.
