{"id":"2a79ea1f-8fe6-4c33-928a-c5cd8b4bec61","task":"Submit and track a residential solar interconnection application with a California IOU (PG&E or SCE) under Rule 21","domain":"solar.interconnection","steps":["Submit the Interconnection Application, Agreement & Authorization form, and application fee (PG&E currently charges $145) through the utility's online portal — for PG&E this is the 'Your Projects' portal (yourprojects-pge.com)","Expect the utility's interconnection team to respond within about 10 business days — either advancing the project or issuing a deficiency notice requiring corrections","Address any deficiency notice promptly and resubmit through the same portal rather than starting a new application, to avoid losing queue position","Once approved, complete the required electrical inspection/final clearance steps before requesting Permission to Operate","For SCE projects, follow the parallel Rule 21 process through SCE's own portal — the sequence (application, fee, review, deficiency-or-advance, inspection, PTO) mirrors PG&E's but is tracked in a separate system","Check whether the project needs to reference current Net Billing Tariff interconnection rules, since the NEM 2.0 legacy pathway closed April 14-15, 2026"],"gotchas":["Deficiency notices reset momentum if not answered quickly — track the utility's response clock and respond inside it to avoid re-queuing","PG&E and SCE run separate portals and slightly different internal timelines under the same Rule 21 framework — don't assume identical turnaround times across utilities","The application fee and specific portal URLs are utility-set and can change; verify current fee and portal address at time of submission rather than relying on cached figures"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T00:48:12.767Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/2a79ea1f-8fe6-4c33-928a-c5cd8b4bec61"}