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CALIFORNIA—Solar workers, consumers, clean energy advocates, community leaders, conservationists, and climate activists are rallying at investor-owned utilities across the state over the next two weeks to protest a utility-backed proposal to tax rooftop solar and drastically reduce the credits consumers receive for selling their solar energy back to the grid.

“Don’t Tax the Sun” events are part of the largest ever submission of live and video-recorded public comments in CPUC history

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced today it is “reopening the record” on its net energy metering “NEM 3” proceeding, in order to gather information on some specific elements of the decision. The record reopening delays a proposed decision from the CPUC on NEM 3 until July at the earliest. 

The Construction is Essential Workforce Campaign was conceived in part due to how the industry was impacted by COVID-19. The coronavirus and related economic lockdowns has led to significant changes in the labor market compared to pre-pandemic times.