California orders utilities to adopt dynamic power pricing

California regulators have ordered the state's top utilities to adopt dynamic electricity pricing, which the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said will cut renewable curtailment and lower costs.From pv magazine USA The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ordered the state's three major electric utilities to develop and offer to all customer classes demand flexibility rates in which prices change at least hourly in response to the changing wholesale cost of electricity and other factors. The new rates are expected to reduce solar curtailment, because when solar generation ...

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