By Herman K. Trabish | UtilityDIVE
Arizona regulators just announced a giant step toward the end of their state’s more than two year war over net energy metering (NEM).
Since 2012, solar advocates and the state’s dominant electricity providers, Arizona Public Service (APS) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP), have argued over how best to reimburse rooftop solar customers for the energy they send back into the system.
At issue is whether to keep retail net metering, which pays solar owners the retail rate of electricity for the power they export to the grid, or whether to replace it and impose extra charges on solar owners.
