California Appeals Court Upholds State’s Rooftop Solar Policy

The California Public Utilities Commission followed the law when it composed a new residential solar policy that lowered the compensation for households sending energy to the grid, a California appeals court ruled, quashing a challenge from environmental organizations.

The appellate court said Monday the commission didn’t violate state law by adopting the Net Billing Tariff, also known as NEM 3.0, which the groups argued would slow the growing rate of renewable energy generation.

Nothing in state law requires the Commission to “ensure the successor tariff would result in continued growth of customer-sited renewable distributed generation at the same pace as ...