- Target:
- Board members of FOMB, Governor of Puerto Rico, the Energy Bureau, and the PR House and Senate
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.sesapr.org
Net Metering allows Puerto Ricans to connect solar panels to homes or businesses and receive full credit for all kWh of solar energy they generate. In effect since 2007, the Net Metering has been crucial for allowing more than 130,000 solar and battery homes and businesses to install solar. Nearly all of them have batteries too, crucial for lifesaving battery backup during power outages which are more frequent in Puerto Rico than anywhere else in the USA.
Ending or diminishing the Net Metering policy would only result in fewer Puerto Rican lives protected by solar and batteries, and would affect low-income and vulnerable people the most. We cannot and will not allow that to happen.
The Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) - a federally created entity with unusual, extreme control over the entire Puerto Rico government - attacked this policy in April, alleging that Puerto Rico’s net metering law itself is, to them, nothing more than “political interference."
Puerto Rico’s Law 10 simply extends the pre-existing Net Metering law’s protection from 2024 to 2030. Respecting this law is vital to moving toward Puerto Rico’s commitment to convert to 100% renewable energy, and it is crucial for continuing Puerto Rican’s ability to protect their homes and businesses with solar power and battery backup.
We, the undersigned, call on the Fiscal Board, Governor Pierluisi and the Energy Bureau to respect Law 10, which protects net metering until 2030. It is vital to our solar and battery security.
What we ask of the FOMB:
Stop your attempts to invalidate Puerto Rico’s Law 10, and your intention to end or alter the net metering program.
What we ask of the Governor:
Defend Act 10 before FOMB and in the courts.
What we ask of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau:
Do not continue with any administrative process of altering the Net Metering program until 2030 at the earliest, as required by Law 10.
What we ask of the leaders of the Puerto Rico House and Senate:
Intervene and fight to protect Act 10 and the continuation of Net Metering.
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The Protect Puerto Rico’s Solar Law petition to Board members of FOMB, Governor of Puerto Rico, the Energy Bureau, and the PR House and Senate was written by Laura Castillo and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.