It’s also important to emphasize that this is still _net metering_

That is, if your solar production for the year equals your energy consumption for the year, you pay $0 in energy costs[1].

You are still offsetting retail electricity rates with your own, cheaper, fixed cost form of electricity. You just get paid the same[2] for your excess production as any solar farm.

1 – It was going to be nonzero with an interconnection fee, but that got dropped

2 – $0.08/kWh is also higher than utility-scale power purchase agreements in CA, which are closer to $0.03/kWh