Hawaii’s Trailblazing Solar Market Continues to Struggle Without Net Metering

“For Net Metering, it was so damn simple,” said Mangelsdorf. “[For] every kilowatt-hour that you fed into the grid, the homeowner would be compensated.”

By comparison, the new tariff structures established by state regulators can be a hard sell because the economics are more difficult for companies to explain and for consumers to understand.

Emma Foehringer Merchant