A new front in California’s solar wars: Who’s allowed to install batteries?

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1. >“Since 2018, the three investor-owned utilities with IBEW 1245 have been working to strip away the ability for solar contractors to install batteries. They would love to strip away the ability of solar contractors to install solar as well — but they feel they can’t quite win that. So the next best thing is to strip away the ability to do batteries — and that essentially cuts the solar contractor off from solar.” 

   Yet another example of utilities and their unions uniting to block distributed energy–and they’re using our ratepayer dollars to do it.