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Those ratepayers are disproportionately lower income, the regulator's review found.</p>\n<p>It said California ratepayers spent about $3 billion a year to support net metering.</p>\n<p>Those funds would be better directed elsewhere, Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves said in an interview. \"If you use that money to purchase the large-scale clean energy projects, we would be able to meet our 2045 goals\" of producing all the state's electricity from clean sources, she said.</p>\n<p>The nation's top solar trade group, the Solar Energy Industries Association, slammed the announcement, saying the changes would \"create the highest solar tax in the country and tarnish the state's clean energy legacy.\"</p>\n<p>Affordable Clean Energy for All, a utility-backed group, said the decision \"recognizes we can grow rooftop solar in California while taking steps to reduce inflated subsidies.\"</p>\n<p>The PUC could vote on the proposal as soon as next month, after receiving stakeholder feedback. 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