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Parties on both sides of a long-running debate over the California Public Utilities Commission’s controversial overhaul of rooftop solar regulations are anxiously awaiting a ruling from the state’s court of appeals.
Depending on what conclusion the justices reach, the decision may alter the rate of compensation that at least some of the roughly 2 million Californians with solar installations on their homes and businesses receive when their systems generate excess electricity.
The decision may come down within the next couple of months. But if the court of appeals wishes to hear oral arguments, the ruling will be issued later in the year.
“There’s a lot hanging on this one,” said Roger Lin, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of three environmental organizations that took their case to court against the public utilities commission, or CPUC.
The decision could overturn, make revisions or simply keep in place what’s now on the regulatory books.
How we got here
The case stems from a decision the CPUC made a little more than three years ago regarding the third iteration of California’s Net Energy Metering tariff program, colloquially known as NEM 3.0.
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