(Canary Media) - California state Senator Josh Becker is worried that the Golden State is undermining a pillar of its clean energy transition: distributed solar power.
Though California has more large-scale solar and battery projects than just about any other state, smaller-scale energy — primarily rooftop solar — has contributed nearly as much to its energy transition to date. But over the past year, a string of utility-backed decisions from the California Public Utilities Commission have come “dangerously close to discouraging much-needed distributed energy in this state,” Becker, a Democrat, said.
That’s why he — and a growing number of California politicians — are proposing legislation to reverse that trend.
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