Solar industry pressures Sandoval, while thanking PUC

As uncertainty looms for rooftop solar companies, industry advocates are waging a sweeping battle to keep the Public Utilities Commission from approving new fees for NV Energy’s solar customers.

The solar industry’s efforts are a mix of scorched-earth tactics and guarded politicking to keep rates low for net metering, a policy that provides consumers credits on their power bills for providing energy to the grid with solar panels. Their opponent, NV Energy, has proposed to the PUC a plan that could cut credits and add new charges for rooftop solar customers. The policy, the power company says, unfairly shifts costs to nonsolar consumers. In a recent quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, NV Energy said technology like rooftop solar presents an “operational risk” for the company.

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