It is usually best to save unpopular news until a major holiday. In Louisiana, a state with a history of brazen political corruption and dominance by the oil and gas industry, this is a time-honored method of limiting public outcry. On Wednesday, the day before the Thanksgiving Holiday, Entergy Louisiana informed state regulators that it would close its net metering program. The utility says that solar installations in its service area had reached a capacity exceeding 0.5% of its peak load, the level at which it is allowed to shut off the program. Entergy Louisiana reports 8203 PV systems under net metering in its service area, with a total capacity of 47.4 MW, or 0.57% of peak electricity demand as of October 2014. As Entergy Louisiana was the state's largest utility and distributed PV is generally not considered viable without net metering, this will have a significant impact on the state's ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...