Message to Gov. Newsom

Dear Governor Newsom,

California is a solar leader. We are asking you to make it easier, not harder, for more people to go solar, to meet our bold commitments to clean energy and to maximize the public benefits of our transition to clean energy.

Utilities are lobbying you and your administration to discourage rooftop solar by attacking net energy metering. Net metering disrupts the utility monopoly and hurts their profits by allowing renters, schools, homeowners, farmers and others to use the sun for their own energy needs and to share it with their neighbors in exchange for a bill credit.

This simple, groundbreaking policy has helped over a million Californians invest in solar. It should be expanded, not throttled, to help us get to 100% clean energy as soon as possible.

Consumers are watching and counting on you to take our side. Please stand up to the utilities and the dirty energy lobby by keeping rooftop solar growing.