By Herman K. Trabish | UtilityDive
Utilities and solar advocates are once again nose to nose on net energy metering in Arizona.
Both Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and Arizona Public Service (APS) have proposed new ways to reimburse net-metered customers. They say their plans make the policy more equitable. Solar advocates say the plans are a veiled attack on self-generation.
“Customers who install distributed generation (DG), like rooftop solar, do use the grid — 24 hours a day. But because of a rate design that the Commission has found to be ‘unfair’ and ‘defective,’ customers with DG don’t pay their fair share for that use,” APS explained in its filing for Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) Docket 13-0248.
