Denton, TX utility proposes payment cuts to solar panel owners
Environment Texas’ Ian Seamans testified at Denton's Sustainability Frameworks Advisory Committee hearing in support of maintaining “net-metering”
Denton Municipal Electric, the city’s municipally owned utility, has proposed a significant reduction in payments to solar panel owners. The current rate of $0.1065 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) sold back to the grid could drop to a range between $0.0379 and $0.0702/kWh under the new plan.
On Friday, the city’s Sustainability Frameworks Advisory Committee considered the proposal and heard from the public.
Ian Seamans, City Hall Advocate for Environment Texas, addressed the committee, stating: “Net metering policies dramatically increase the benefits of solar for homeowners. You are much more likely to install solar on your home if you have net metering in your district. Our reports across Texas and California show this. When California adopted NEM 3.0, which is similar to this plan, we saw 17,000 solar industry layoffs, mass bankruptcies across the solar industry in California, and a complete flatlining of rooftop solar across the state. What we don’t want is more of that in Texas.”
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