Solar power advocates say they’re not done fighting California’s new solar rules yet

Even after an appeals court rejected a lawsuit to overturn new solar panel regulations, environmental advocates still won't give up.

Their case against the California Public Utilities Commission’s new solar panel rules might have been rejected by an appeals court in San Francisco, but rooftop solar power advocates say they’re not done fighting to expand renewable energy in the state.

On Wednesday, a panel of three First Appellate District judges rejected a petition brought by The Center for Biological Diversity, the Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group challenging the California Public Utilities Commission’s new rules on “net energy metering,” a tariff created for people with rooftop solar panels which allows them to give energy they don’t use to the grid. For that, customers are given credit on their electrical bills.

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