Attention Hudson Valley Clean Energy solar customers:
We are urging Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation to change their tariffs to allow PV system owners to change their “anniversary dates” with the utility. Currently, some customers are at an unfair disadvantage based on what month their solar systems were installed. We need your help in making this happen and TODAY is the last day!
One of the biggest financial benefits of a net-metered residential solar system is having the capability to accumulate “credits” for excess generation. Customers whose systems are turned on in the warmer spring and summer months are able to generate credits and then use them in the lower-producing winter months. However, having an anniversary date in the winter or fall often results in the customer not having any credits available in the winter, then accumulating credits in the summer which are zeroed out in the fall at a lower cost.
Investigation of Central Hudson’s tariffs does not reveal a passage which prohibits the changing of an anniversary date, but the utility continues to refuse to do so. It’s unfair that some customers are receiving better returns on their investments than others simply because they were lucky enough to have their systems installed in the spring.
We urge you to send a letter to the Public Service Commission so that all solar customers in the Hudson Valley receive a fair exchange on their electricity. In your letter, please reference Central Hudson rate case No. 09-E-0588. Address your letters to: Hon. Jaclyn A. Brilling, NYS Dept. of Public Service, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350. If you would like a template to use for your letter, please e-mail Lindsay at lindsay@hvce.com and we’d be more than happy to send you one.
Thanks for your help in addressing this important issue! Remember, this is the last day that the PSC will be receiving comments. Send in your letter now!