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• New York Times: California regulators propose cutting compensation for rooftop solar

• LA Times: California pushes a new plan to cut rooftop solar incentives

• San Francisco Chronicle (OpEd): While you were focused on elections, California proposed making it harder to add more solar power

• LA Times (Editorial): California can't enact a 'solar tax' and still be a climate leader

• Sacramento Bee (Editorial): Cutting rooftop solar subsidies would be a huge mistake. California needs to reassess

• San Francisco Chronicle (Editorial): If California is worried about energy prices, take on PG&E before gouging rooftop solar

• Sacramento Bee (Editorial): Slashing solar incentives only helps private utilities. California regulators must back down

• LA Times (Editorial): Don’t slash incentives for California rooftop solar

• Fresno Bee (OpEd): California needs more clean energy, but PG&E is trying its best to kill rooftop solar

• Capitol Weekly: Solar power and a stressed grid: Batteries play key role

• San Luis Obispo Tribune: Proposed solar power tax brings protesters: ‘Don’t tax the sun’

• Cal Matters (OpEd): Decision on solar metering rules: Utilities vs. rooftop solar customers

• San Francisco Chronicle: California might reduce financial benefits of rooftop solar systems

• LA Times: Should California make solar more expensive? Inside the climate justice battle

• LA Times (Editorial): Don’t turn the lights out on California’s solar rooftop revolution

• Fresno Bee (Editorial): Solar power is the future. So why might California regulators make it less appealing?

• Los Angeles Times: California proposes big changes to rooftop solar incentives

• CNBC: Solar power advocates slam new California proposal to reduce subsidies

• New York Times: California regulators propose raising fees on owners of rooftop solar systems.

• Solar Builder: California NEM 3.0 Proposal: CPUC set to impose highest solar tax in the country

• Forbes: California’s solar customers may get singed, imperiling net-zero goals

• Capital Public Radio: How a recent proposal to slash solar incentives has its supporters and California utilities butting heads

• Utility Dive (OpEd): Stopping the utility profit grab and saving rooftop solar in California

• LA Sentinel (OpEd): Policymakers should support policies that make it more affordable for everyone to access rooftop solar

• North Bay Business Journal (OpEd): North Bay Business Journal: Worsening wildfires underscore need for clean energy alternatives like rooftop solar

• The Coast News: Solana Beach council passes resolution to protect rooftop solar

• Capitol Weekly (OpEd): Solar power, like the sun, should belong to us all

• New York Times: California panel backs solar mandate for new buildings

• Politico: Granholm talks rooftop solar in California ahead of major state decision

• CBS 2: Perpetual threats of flex alerts causing more people to go solar

• NBC Philadelphia: New Jersey pushes to double solar power over next 5 years

• Santa Cruz Sentinel (OpEd): Upcoming PUC decision threatens the future of California solar

• Sacramento Bee (OpEd): Jonathan Scott: California must protect rooftop solar from utilities' agenda

• OC Register: Plans to shrink incentives for rooftop solar draw backlash

• New York Times: More power lines or rooftop solar panels: the fight over energy’s future

• San Francisco Chronicle (OpEd): How PG&E and other California utilities are trying to kill rooftop solar

• Cal Matters (OpEd): Public utilities commission is working against California’s climate goals

• Capitol Weekly Podcast: Interview with CALSSA executive director on the future of solar

• Palm Springs Desert Sun (OpEd): Don't gut program that's helped a million Californians install solar panels

• San Francisco Chronicle: California eyes rooftop solar policy changes; the industry says its future hangs in the balance

• Sacramento Bee: Solar panel owner talks about proposal to cut solar panel credits

• Reuters: California debating the future of rooftop solar's biggest incentive

• Palm Springs Desert Sun: California begins debate on new rooftop solar rules: How might they affect you?

• Solar Power World: Net-metering battle between utilities and solar industry heats up in California

• Bloomberg: California utilities propose lower payments on rooftop solar

• San Francisco Chronicle: After California and Texas blackouts, environmentalists push for faster transition to renewable energy

• LA Times: How rooftop solar could save Americans $473 billion

• LA Times: California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help

• LA Times: What caused California's rolling blackouts? Climate change and poor planning

• New York Times: Its electric grid under strain, California turns to batteries

Press releases

• Release: Statement on CPUC’s Revised Proposed Decision on Solar Net Metering

• Release: Distributed Sun-Charged Batteries Helped Grid During California Heat Wave, Again

• Release: Statement on CPUC’s Proposed Decision on Net Metering Expected to Be Released on or before September 29th

• Release: “Don’t Tax the Sun” Tour Crossing California

• Release: Solar Supporters Rally in LA and San Francisco to Stop CPUC’s Latest Solar Tax Proposal that Boosts Utility Profits at the Expense of Clean Energy Needs

• Release: City Leaders Across California Urge Governor Newsom and Utilities to Protect Solar

• Release: Governor Newsom Proposes $970 Million for Solar and Storage Incentives While CPUC Proposes $1.8 Billion in Solar and Storage Taxes

• Release: Governor Newsom Reiterates Opposition to CPUC’s Solar Tax Proposal, But CPUC’s Revised Approach Suggests “More of the Same Under a New Name”

• Release: Statement on NEM 3 Record Reopening

• Release: Solar Supporters Stage Live “Phone-In” at CPUC Looking for Transparency and Answers as Rooftop Solar Proceeding Enters Second Year

• Release: Statement on CPUC Net Metering Decision Delay

• Release: New Poll Shows CPUC’s Proposal to Tax Solar and Slash Incentives is Extremely Unpopular with California Voters

• Release: Twenty-Two California Legislators Call on CPUC to Keep Rooftop Solar Growing and Affordable

• Release: Twenty-Six California Congress Members Call on CPUC to Keep Rooftop Solar Growing and Affordable

• Release: Thirty-Three Faith Organizations Call on Gov. Newsom Not to Increase Costs for Rooftop Solar

• Release: New Ad Campaign Calls on CPUC and Governor Newsom to “Stop the Solar Tax”

• Release: Thousands of Solar Workers and Supporters Rally and March in Los Angeles and San Francisco to Save Solar Jobs from Utility Profit Grab

• Release: Save California Solar Coalition Responds to CPUC Net Metering Proposed Decision

• Release: Solar Supporters Deliver 120,000+ Public Comments Urging Governor and CPUC to Save CA Solar from Utility “Profit Grab”

• Release: Message in Sand Calls on Governor Newsom to Keep Solar Energy Growing in the Face of Utility and Fossil Fuel Industry Opposition

• Release: Save California Solar Launches Broadcast TV, Cable and Radio Ads Calling on CPUC and Governor Newsom to Reject Utility Profit Grab and Keep Rooftop Solar Growing and Affordable

• Release: Diverse Coalition of Hundreds of Organizations Sign Letter to Protect Rooftop Solar in California

• Release: Leading Conservation Organizations Call on Governor Newsom and CPUC to Keep Rooftop Solar Affordable and Growing in California

• Release: Consumers Looking for Climate Solutions and Energy Reliability Amidst Fires and Blackouts Turn to Battery Storage

• Release: More than Twenty Affordable Housing Providers Urge CPUC and Gov. Newsom to Protect Rooftop Solar in California

• Release: Community Energy Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Efforts to Undermine Solar Self-Generation

• Release: Forty-One Local Chapters of Indivisible California Issue Letter to Protect Rooftop Solar in California

• Release: Over 400 Faith Leaders and Congregants Around the State Urge CPUC and Gov. Newsom to Protect Rooftop Solar in California

• Release: California sets first-in-nation requirements for solar and energy storage; decision dependent on net metering rules expected later this year

• Release: Coalition for Environmental Equity and Economics Announces efforts to protect rooftop solar in California

• Release: Statement on Vibrant Clean Energy report revealing that halting California’s solar and storage market the utility profit grab would cost California tens of billions over time and each ratepayer $295 a year

• Release: New report shows California ratepayers can save $120B with sustained local solar and storage growth 

• Release: Diverse coalition defends rooftop solar against utility profit grab

• Release: Statement on AB 1139 “utility profit grab bill” failing to pass in the CA Assembly

• Release: Schools, climate and equity Leaders, consumers, small businesses rally against utility “profit grab”

• Release: IOUs pressure CPUC to make rooftop 2x more expensive, slash value of solar exports by 77%

• Release: Solar advocates fight for small businesses, consumer choice in state decision on rooftop solar program

• Release: New poll shows utility efforts to roll back net metering are very unpopular with California voters

• Release: New report shows job creation, clean energy and energy resilience benefits from local solar and storage investments

• Release: New report shows California risks “solar cliff”

• Release: New report highlights the environmental benefits of rooftop solar in California

• Release: New report unveils utilities’ playbook to stall rooftop solar in California

Reports and resources

• Polling memo: CPUC proposal to tax solar and slash incentives unpopular with voters

• Presentation: Growing rooftop solar Is essential for reaching California’s clean energy goals

• Presentation: Protecting rooftop solar from the utility profit grab

• TV ad: Penalize

• TV ad: Powered by the Sun

• Radio spot: Solar Tax

• Radio spot: If Utilities Get their Way

• Mailer: CA Legacy

• Mailer: Stop the Solar Tax

• Mailer: Save CA Solar

• Billboard: Solar Tax

• Video: Solar worker march and rally highlights

• Digital video: Stop the big utility profit grab

• Asset folder: Photos and video from solar worker protest in Los Angeles

• Asset folder: Photos and video from solar worker protest in San Francisco

• Asset folder: B-roll, drone footage and photos from State Capitol human billboard visual and rally

• Asset folder: Photos and drone footage from beach writing action at Huntington Beach

• Factsheet: How distributed sun-charged batteries helped the grid during the September 2022 heat wave

• Background memo: California is scrambling to keep our electric grid up and running. So why is the CPUC looking to hold back a promising source of energy reliability?

• Background memo: California's net metering changes could negate federal climate bill benefits

• Background memo: States rejecting unpopular solar taxes

• Background memo: CPUC’s proposed decision on rooftop solar makes reaching Governor Newsom’s climate change and clean energy goals impossible

• Background memo: California’s world-renowned rooftop solar market hangs in balance as leader discuss climate change issues at COP26

• Background memo: Updates on CPUC NEM 3.0 Proceeding

• Polling memo: Californians support growing rooftop solar and net metering

• Background memo: What’s at stake in the CPUC NEM 3 proceeding

• Background memo: Big utilities have never been concerned about equity, and they are not now

• Background memo: Path to 100% clean energy depends on rooftop solar and net metering

• Report: Role of distributed generation in decarbonizing California by 2045

• Report: Shovel ready for recovery: A blueprint for jobs and economic recovery through local solar and storage investments

• Report: Blocking rooftop solar: The companies, lobbyists and front groups undermining local clean energy

• Report: The environmental case for rooftop solar energy: Protecting California's climate and land

• Report: Protecting rooftop solar in California

• Videos: Community and environmental justice leaders support rooftop solar 

• Video: Environmental working group explains rooftop solar