San Francisco committees press CPUC to reject PG&E proposals, warn PCIA and net‑metering changes could stall Clean Power SF

San Francisco board and LAFCO members on Friday urged the California Public Utilities Commission to resist proposed changes by Pacific Gas & Electric that advocates and local officials say would undermine rooftop solar and the city’s Clean Power SF community choice program.

Supporters at a joint meeting of the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee and the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) described two related CPUC dockets: one on net energy metering and another on the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment, or PCIA. Susanna Churchill of VoteSolar told commissioners the CPUC had not issued a proposed decision and that utility proposals would ‘‘drastically reduce solar savings’’ for future customers: ‘‘they wanna reduce the bill credits for the exported clean energy by more than 50%, which would end net metering,’’ she said, and cited additional…