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Committee adopts ordinance changes to expand virtual net energy metering for multifamily buildings
Summary
The Energy and Environment Committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted 3-0 Sept. 16 to adopt recommendations in the City Administrative Officer reports and a draft ordinance amending the Department of Water and Power’s virtual net energy metering (VNM) pilot program to increase participation by multifamily properties and their tenants.
The Energy and Environment Committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted 3-0 Sept. 16 to adopt recommendations in the City Administrative Officer reports and a draft ordinance amending the Department of Water and Power’s virtual net energy metering (VNM) pilot program to increase participation by multifamily properties and their tenants.
Committee Chair Council Member Adrienne Nazarian said the package would implement changes staff described as intended "to make it easier for our customers to participate." Staff from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) told the committee the changes are designed to pair VNM with the agency’s Comprehensive Affordable Multifamily Retrofits program (CAMR) to deliver solar and retrofit benefits to low-income tenants.
The ordinance and accompanying rule changes lower the VNM minimum system-size threshold from 30 kilowatts to 10 kilowatts,…
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