Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers
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09/2019
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Distributed solar PV (DPV) under net energy metering (NEM) with volumetric retail electricity pricing (i.e., uniform compensation of generation in excess of consumption, regardless of its characteristics such as time of generation) has raised concerns among utilities and regulators. Electric investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are concerned about the effects of DPV on sales and future earnings opportunities from deferred or avoided capital investments under existing regulatory and business models. NEM reforms have been proposed and, in certain cases, adopted by state public utility commissions. Importantly, most reforms change the DPV system payback periods and, thus, have the potential to reduce distributed solar PV deployment. |
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An open-access journal article published in Energies can be downloaded here. |
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2019
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