SolarCity Corp., the biggest U.S. rooftop solar installer, sued Salt River Project, alleging the Arizona utility’s new pricing policy will “punish customers who choose to go solar.” SolarCity said the pricing plan adopted Thursday imposes unfair fees on Tempe’s Salt River Project customers who generate their own power, and represents anticompetitive behavior, the San Mateo company said Tuesday. The dispute is part of a growing conflict between companies like SolarCity that install residential solar systems and utilities that see rooftop panels as a threat to revenue. People with solar systems typically send the output to the grid and get a credit on their monthly power bills, reducing the amount of electricity purchased from the local utilities. For people who generate electricity, from systems such as rooftop solar panels, the minimum will be $32.44, and heavy users will incur a higher basic charge. Solar customers also face a demand charge, ranging from about $30 in winter months to $125 in the summer that nonsolar customers don’t have to pay, according to the complaint filed Monday in federal court in Phoenix. [...] that same person would pay a $32.44 minimum, a demand charge of about $73 and then $65 for energy, according to John Tucker, Salt River’s manager of pricing design.

 

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