The decline in the US rooftop solar market has been led by California’s NEM 3.0, which slashed payments (between 70% and 80%), especially gutting the remuneration per kWh for aimless pushing of excess solar power onto the grid during the midday ‘duck curve’. Similar moves are being enacted across the rest of the country at a state level also, killing the old – and frankly – antiquated and unhelpful (for the grid as a whole) financial model of simply being paid per kWh of an intermittent and non-dispatchable resource. California’s Governor Newsom has promised, but not yet delivered, compensatory incentives for energy storage additions. The state is now considering a Net Value Billing Tariff which would support community solar development,…