Tucson Weekly
The Sierra Club isn’t a fan of Tucson Electric Power’s proposal to do away with the state’s metering rules for solar energy—something that tells TEP to buy back, at full retail price, any excess energy that a solar customer did not use.
The utility company filed a request with the Arizona Corporation Commission a couple of days ago, arguing the changes would make monthly rates more equal for all residential customers—most solar rooftops are connected to the communal electrical grid, and TEP says the rooftop solar customers are not paying their share for maintaining the grid and other services.
TEP wants to reduce that buy-back rate by about half, according to Tucson Sierra Club organizer Dan Millis.
