When it comes to advancing one’s solar industry knowledge, HeatSpring is a top resource with its library of hundreds of online courses. And, when it comes to understanding the rate structures of hundreds of utility companies across the US, Energy Toolbase is a leading tool and the gold standard for rate & financial analysis for PV + Storage projects.

Recently HeatSpring and Energy Toolbase jointly published a new free course titled: California C&I Energy Storage Market – State of the Union.

In this course, Adam Gerza of Energy Toolbase discusses the future of the solar storage market and what solar exports will be worth in California given current developments. Below is a brief 1-minute excerpt from the course.

You can access the full-length free course here on HeatSpring’s website.

The transcript of the video is below:

Adam Gerza of EnergyToolbase: You know, at the end of the day, the big takeaway is what will solar exports be worth on average? And the answer is, and this is data that we ran right after that December PD came out, we had it depending on the system and some specifics, but in the neighborhood of about 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt hour on average.

And it turns out this lines up very closely with what CALSSA calculated when they ran these independently. So, this is the part that really affects storage, obviously, with a reduced export rate, which is greatly reduced from where we’re currently at in the market, which is retail, less non-bypassable charges, which are just a couple of cents. This would obviously create a big and strong price signal for storage to prevent solar exports to the grid. And in that sense, that’s why we’ve kind of listed it as a tailwind for storage. It frankly would just create a strong price signal and opportunity.