NEM 3.0 California Net Energy Metering (“NEM”) Transition to NEM-3 California’s NEM program is the most important policy mechanism for locally sited solar. This 25-year-old program, which allows solar customers to bank solar energy exported to the grid in the form of Net-Energy Metering (“NEM”) credits, catapulted California to the forefront as the undisputed U.S. solar leader and
California NEM, NEM 2.0, Final Decision Released On California's NEM 2.0 Program On January 28, 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) narrowly voted 3-to-2 to enact its net energy metering (NEM) successor tariff, commonly known as NEM 2.0. The CPUC issued a 123-page final decision with details of the NEM 2.0 program on February 5, 2016. For the past
