In California, state regulators are getting ready to resolve a long-running conflict between the state’s big three investor-owned utilities, their customers, and companies that want to add batteries to solar PV systems.

And according to the statistics on how many solar-storage projects have been held up by this conflict, it couldn’t come too soon for the industry.

That’s one takeaway from a ruling (PDF) from California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey, which has set in motion a process that could force utilities to back off a stance that’s holding up more than 300 solar-storage projects, adding up to 10 megawatts of capacity, that have been on backlog as of mid-2013.

via CA Regulators May Challenge Utilities for Blocking Hybrid Solar-Storage Systems : Greentech Media.