Now with the California mandate train further down the track, one has requirements to add solar PV to new construction, redefine NEM calling (it) NEM 3.0, which kills the one to one energy credit, brings down excess energy to the wholesale cost credit level and basically foists Net Billing as the de facto operation moving forward. The PSPS and battery back up considerations now pushing resiliency is creating the packaged system of solar PV + Battery storage.

Programs and mandates are creating multiple “callers” of a square dance where a cadre of drunken sailors on shore leave are trying to listen to six different “callers” to “dance” in syncronicity. The NEM 3.0 combined with the wholesale rate of energy per kWh is devoured by the TOU rate spiking periods typically from 4 PM to 9 PM each day. Battery back up systems become onerous if one moves past the 20kWh ‘consideration’ of NFPA 855. The ‘cost’ of LFP has come down to a point that one can afford a large home battery pack for energy management and resiliency control of their systems. Disparate AHJ entities, foisting soft costs on consumers is keeping alive the high cost of Solar PV and BESS.