PG&E spokeswoman Ellen Hayes says the incentives for solar systems are a holdover from the early days of alternative energy deployment in California, and are now due to be updated. But, she says, the utility remains supportive of further solar expansion.

However, Brad Heavner, from the California Solar Energy Industries Association questions that timetable.
At Sonoma Clean Power, CEO Geof Cyphers sees the current wrangling as a predictable response to changes in the energy industry.