State regulators recently approved a rate plan requested by utility companies that critics say will negatively impact some solar customers and the industry.

The change will cause homeowners that installed solar systems with batteries to receive less compensation back from utility companies than they were expecting, according to experts such as the California Solar and Storage Association, a group of companies representing the industry.

At issue are credits provided to solar customers for extra energy they produced and distributed back to the grid. Because of discrepancies in how those credits are reimbursed and how users are billed, many homes with solar systems that installed batteries could be forced to pay for delivery costs and may not be able to use all of their accumulated credits.

“So, the net effect is solar is more expensive,” Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the California Solar and Storage Association, told The Epoch Times via email.

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