Update: Last month, the Commission held a workshop during which several parties, including several Ohio electric distribution utilities (EDUs), environmental advocates, and renewable energy companies offered comments on the Commission staff’s reconsideration of the previously-issued net metering rules. Broadly speaking, the Ohio EDUs expressed concerns at the rules workshop that the costs associated with reimbursing customers be fair, and opined that such costs should not fall on EDUs, as the net metered electricity is actually a generation-related product, unrelated to distribution, and, as such, the costs should not be borne by the EDUs. The environmental advocates and renewable energy companies offered comments stressing the importance of electricity that results from net metering, and indicating that the production of such electricity should be compensated fairly.