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The Turkey Grab @ Your Solar in California [1]

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Date: 2025-03-20

Governor Newsom's CPUC has proposed to break your solar contract, slash your solar credit, and slap you with a solar tax. These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2). Our best chance of stopping this proposal is to make it Dead On Arrival in the State Legislature. This is a red alert. Please stop what you are doing and send your state Assemblymember and Senator a message right now. Then call their offices. Then share this message with three friends, or a thousand. The blue button below will walk you through all of these steps. Tell your state lawmakers: Don't Break the Solar Contract! More background The Newsom Administration has proposed to break two million solar contracts California requires PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E to sign an "interconnection agreement" with solar customers. For those who signed up for solar before April 2023, the contract guarantees your "net metering" plan for twenty years, which is the minimum warranty for solar panels. At the request of Governor Newsom, the CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is now proposing to: Break these solar contracts.

Slash the credit you get for the solar energy you send back to the grid.

Slap you with a Solar Tax

Apply these changes to anyone who went solar before April 2023. They are lying about rooftop solar to cover their butts Rates are high because of the utilities' increased spending on poles and wires, which is how they make their profits.

The Newsom Administration failed to control this monopoly utility spending, and Governor Newsom has taken $2.5 million from the utilities and their labor union.

The utilities want to keep their profit-making machine going, and the Newsom Administration wants to cover up their failure to regulate the utilities.

So they are making you the scapegoat for high rates by spreading lies about rooftop solar. Rooftop solar is a key solution to high rates When people make their own solar energy, it reduces the need for utilities to make and move electricity, which saves everyone money.

Rooftop solar saved all ratepayers $1.5 billion in 2024 alone. This is only a proposal. Let's keep it that way by making this Dead On Arrival in the Legislature Governor Newsom could include the CPUC's proposal in his proposed budget this spring.

Now is the time to ensure your state Assemblymember and Senator understand that they cannot break two million solar contracts.

Instead, they should tackle the root cause of high rates, and rein in the utilities' spending and profiteering. More background Tell your state lawmakers: Don't Break the Solar Contract! Thank you for considering this request, and for all you do! -- Dave Rosenfeld, Executive Director & Cailey Underhill, Advocacy and Development Director

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