Post #10 - What APS residential customers need to know about the Arizona Corporation Commission net metering reform decision:
- Current rooftop solar customers are not affected. They are grandfathered under current net metering rules for 20 years, regardless if home ownership changes.
- Customers who submit a signed contract with a solar installer and an interconnection application (including all required design documents) to APS by December 31, 2013, also will be grandfathered.
- Starting January 1, 2014, new residential solar customers will get full retail net metering credit for the solar they produce, but they will be subject to a monthly charge to help pay for their use of the electric grid.
- This monthly charge, based on the size of the solar system installed, is $0.70 cents per kilowatt, or $4.90 per month for the typical sized system.
- The ACC decision also directed APS to provide quarterly reports on the pace of rooftop solar adoption to assist the ACC in considering further increases to the charge.
- The new policy will be in effect until the next APS rate case, which will be filed in 2015.
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