Written Public Comment submitted by Edward F. Dijeau on January 18, 2023 at 5:12pm:
On April 14th, 2023, NEM 2.0 will end, for new customers, and NEM 3.0 will begin for all new and future customers as well as those who have completed 20 years on either NEM 1.0 or NEM 2.0 and what will EBCE do for those customers? Since EBCE is the "Energy only" supplier and EBCE, as in the past, given a better value in TRU-UP costs for the remaining credits Rooftop Solar Customers have placed onto the grid and banked. EBCE is supposed to be the low carbon provider and Rooftop Solar is exactly that and the compensation should be equivalent for the Energy portion as the tariff is to consuming customers since EBCE is a nonprofit and is not profit motivated like PG&E. EBCE has been giving millions of dollars to other non-profits from its revenues and I believe something should go back to the carbon fee rooftop solar customers withing the EBCE service areas before being handed out to others who do not provide green energy to EBCE. The 75% take away that PG&E is going to take is nothing short of extortion on the new homes, being built in California, that are required to have rooftop solar, and the costs will be placed into 30-year mortgages that will cost $1,200.00 or more in interest a year to start but only give a $600.00 to $800.00 payback under NEM 3.0 and that is not fair. EBCE should, offer all those new and renewing NEM customers, at least the 12 cent per kilo watt hour tariff rate for their excess electricity, not the proposed PG&E payments of only 6 to 8 cents per kilo watt hour that the CPUC has regulated after the 75% discount.