{"id":3689,"date":"2021-06-11T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solarrights.org\/?page_id=3689"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:18:49","slug":"utilityprofitgrab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solarrights.org\/utilityprofitgrab\/","title":{"rendered":"NEM3 fact sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3689\" class=\"elementor elementor-3689\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0215722 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0215722\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c634ed\" data-id=\"8c634ed\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3f4fce elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d3f4fce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Fact Sheet - last updated 11\/17\/22<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cc6908 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7cc6908\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Utilities want to stop California\u2019s solar progress. Don\u2019t give up your solar power.<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-77cab70 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"77cab70\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2395d69\" data-id=\"2395d69\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f95c925 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f95c925\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>California is a solar state where the sun belongs to everyone. Popular policies like net metering are helping millions of middle and working class Californians tap into the sun\u2019s power to save money and clean up our air.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Big utilities like PG&amp;E see solar as competition and are lobbying state officials to make it more expensive for everyday people to get solar. On November 10th, the CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) proposed to drastically reduce the credit new solar users would receive for selling excess power back to the grid.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p><em>If adopted at their scheduled meeting on December 15th, the CPUC&#8217;s proposal will cut the growth of solar in half and shut millions of working Californians out of the benefits of rooftop solar and batteries.<\/em><\/p><p><em>This is a big utility profit grab at the expense of the public and planet that is out of step with California\u2019s clean energy goals. We are asking Governor Newsom to support rooftop solar for the public and stop the utility profit grab.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-866d321 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"866d321\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4bbe42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"c4bbe42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e9f868 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e9f868\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Sun Belongs To Everyone<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be95b00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be95b00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Over 2,000 schools, 1,000 farms, 300 apartment buildings and over a million homes are powered directly by the sun. [1]\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Every day, 400 new consumers plug into the sun to save money and do their part to reduce air pollution and stop climate change. [2] \u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd3618a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bd3618a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Keep the Lights On With Sun-Charged Batteries<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f001d93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f001d93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Increasingly, consumers are adding a battery to their solar system to provide reliable energy for their home or business.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">California has more than 30,000 sun-charged batteries that can instantaneously provide pollution-free electricity when California needs it most \u2013 late summer afternoons and early evenings when our electric grid is most stressed. [3]<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Rolling blackouts and weeklong Flex Alerts are avoidable if California encourages more sun-charged batteries where people live, work, pray and play.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81ef84a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"81ef84a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Rooftop Solar Reduces Utility Bills For Everyone<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da891f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"da891f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Maximizing rooftop solar could save ratepayers $120 billion over the next thirty years. [4]<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In 2018 alone, rooftop solar and energy efficiency prompted the state to scale back more than 20 power line projects, saving $2.6 billion. This trend has continued since. [5]<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-564e166 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"564e166\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The CPUC's Rooftop Solar Proposal Will Put Solar Out Of Reach For Working Families<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f0e464 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f0e464\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The CPUC&#8217;s most recent proposed decision is extreme, and puts utility profits ahead of the needs of everyday people. [6]<\/p><ul><li><strong>It would send solar off a cliff.<\/strong> The proposal would cut by 75% on average the credit that new solar users get for sharing surplus solar energy with the grid (from an average of thirty cents per kilowatt hour to about five cents) [7]<\/li><li><strong>This has happened before.<\/strong> Everywhere in the country where similar cuts have been implemented, solar adoptions have plummeted by half or more. [8]<\/li><li><strong>This will make solar unaffordable for millions of working families<\/strong>, churches, schools and businesses, right when just under half of all new solar is going into working and middle class neighborhoods. [9] Over 150,000 solar roofs serve customers in the CARE discount program. [10] Last year, an additional 30,000 rental units serving more than 100,000 people at multifamily affordable housing projects are under development due to net metering, and another 200,000 families in affordable multi-family homes are projected to get solar by 2030. [11]<\/li><li><strong>This will also ruin thousands of small, locally-owned solar businesses and threaten over 60,000 jobs<\/strong>. [12]<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ced7da elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6ced7da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Utility Profit Grab Impedes Getting To 100% Clean Energy<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90f0903 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90f0903\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The California Energy Commission estimates California will need three times as much solar &#8211; both large-scale and rooftop &#8211; to meet its goals and help fight climate change. [13]\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">By building solar panels on roofs, instead of converting open space to utility-scale solar farms, California can also help protect open space. For every gigawatt of rooftop solar built on rooftops, almost 5,200 acres of land can be protected. [14]\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Today\u2019s one million solar systems produce nearly 13 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean energy each year, avoiding 5 million metric tons of CO2 annually &#8211; the equivalent of two coal-fired power plants.\u00a0 [15]<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4113322 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4113322\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Utilities Care About Profits, Not Equity<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df133c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"df133c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Long-distance power lines and &#8220;wildfire mitigation&#8221; are what&#8217;s actually driving up our electricity bills. Consumers pay an estimated $9 billion a year related to long-distance power lines.[16]<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Utilities get a guaranteed profit of 8-10% from every dollar they spend building and maintaining those power lines. [17]\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Utilities have lobbied against every major proposal to help more working communities adopt solar and battery storage. [18]<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8bb8f42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8bb8f42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">We should keep solar growing, and make it more equitable<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-386396d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"386396d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are pushing to keep rooftop solar and battery storage growing, and to make it more equitable so that millions of working class households and communities including renters have access to solar in the next few years. [19]<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52e9394 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"52e9394\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/solarrights.org\/savecaliforniasolar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Take Action: Tell Gov. Newsom to Stop the Utility Profit Grab<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef64d04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ef64d04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Endnotes<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1] California Solar &amp; Storage Association: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c1a3f9e4b04884b35cfef6\/t\/5fb560ea3567eb666b01fa57\/1605722365656\/CALSSA+Economic+Recovery+Report+FINAL.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shovel Ready for Recovery<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[2] California DG Stats. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.californiadgstats.ca.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.californiadgstats.ca.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[3] See note 1<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[4] Vibrant Clean Energy: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vibrantcleanenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/VCE-CCSA_CA_Report.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Role of Distributed Generation in Decarbonizing California by 2045<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[5] See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/efficiency-ders-saving-26b-in-avoided-transmission-costs-caiso-says\/519935\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utility Dive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> summary of this CA Independent Systems Operator (CAISO) 2018 report, with link to the actual report. CAISO&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiso.com\/Documents\/BoardApproved2020-2021TransmissionPlan.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">most recent 2020-2021 report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> continued to credit rooftop solar and efficiency for reducing transmission line spending, &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Load forecast growth continues to remain relatively flat, resulting in part from continued statewide emphasis on energy efficiency and behind-the-meter generation&#8230;Consistent with past studies, this transmission planning cycle did<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not reveal the need for major transmission expansion to achieve the 60 percent RPS goal set out in SB 100 for 2030..&#8221; (p.1)<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[6] <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpuc.ca.gov\/SearchRes.aspx?DocFormat=ALL&amp;DocID=498526033\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPUC Revised Proposal for NEM3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released November 10, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[7] <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1JqTHu89M4Str2aevaNR0R7ZOoy26_AVKHsIPg1ctgLQ\/edit#slide=id.g18e5bec28d7_0_1134\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More details about the proposal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[8] <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rooftop-Solar-at-risk-final_1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environment California, Rooftop Solar at Risk<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[9] Neighborhood level adoption data: The Berkeley Lab: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emp.lbl.gov\/solar-demographics-tool\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar Demographics Tool<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eta-publications.lbl.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/solar-adopter_income_trends_report.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[10] <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1CYM1Gr0aAfVl8Bl_VqG2HEnPSpAnRXqVLumu-tc730Q\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CARE data<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[11] See note 2.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[12] The Solar Foundation: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarfoundation.org\/national\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Solar Jobs Census<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[13] California Energy Commission: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/efiling.energy.ca.gov\/EFiling\/GetFile.aspx?tn=237168&amp;DocumentContentId=70348\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB 100 Joint Agency Report Summary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, p. 10<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[14] Environment California Research &amp; Policy Center: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/environmentcalifornia.org\/sites\/environment\/files\/reports\/CA_Env_Benefits_scrn_0.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Environmental Case for Rooftop Solar<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[15] See note 1<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[16] CA Public Utilities Commission: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/-\/media\/cpuc-website\/divisions\/office-of-governmental-affairs-division\/reports\/2021\/senate-bill-695-report-2021-and-en-banc-whitepaper_final_04302021.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utility Costs and Affordability of the Grid of the Future<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $4B in transmission costs in 2021 on p. 3; $5B in wildfire mitigation costs in 2019 on p. 60; $4.336 in 2021 transmission spending and rate of increase p. 36<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[17] CPUC\u2019s \u201cUtility Costs and Affordability of the Grid of the Future: The Averch-Johnson effect described on page 26; The state&#8217;s investor-owned utilities charged ratepayers nearly $20 billion in transmission line projects between 2010 and 2019 (pp. 39, Table 11);\u00a0 Utilities collected more than $20 billion in profits over a similar time period (utility 10-K filings, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Z9iqj5wONLDA_RYnc8lNoD407eTGvYQqitOrKxlQdGo\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itemized here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[18] Partial list of initiatives utilities lobbied to kill or defang: Affordable housing solar incentives (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB693\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AB 693<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Eggman, 2015); Low-income feed in tariff (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1990\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AB 1990<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Fong); Community solar (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1990\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB 843<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Wolk, 2013; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB43\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB 43<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Wolk, 2013; CPUC implementation); Microgrids (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB 1339, CPUC implementation)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[19] Coalition for Environmental Equity &amp; Economics, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ceeetruth.org\/equity-statement\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equity Statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ceeetruth.org\/powered-by-equity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Path for more solar equity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-95a8241 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"95a8241\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b1b31d4\" data-id=\"b1b31d4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c346ebc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c346ebc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/solarrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favicon.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-426\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solarrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favicon.png 128w, https:\/\/solarrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favicon-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/solarrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/favicon-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact Sheet &#8211; 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