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The California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) new solar energy proposal removes a previously proposed monthly grid tax that could’ve added hundreds of dollars per year to the cost of solar installations (via Reuters).

The CPUC was looking to slash solar incentives for customers of investor-owned utilities and, in December, proposed charging a monthly fee of $8 per kilowatt to connect new solar customers to the grid. As pointed out by my colleague Justine Calma, some industry groups opposed the plan saying it “would end California’s solar boom,” which has made it the state with more rooftop solar than anywhere else in the US.

The CPUC responded by removing the monthly grid fee from its proposal.

At the same time, the CPUC is also planning to reduce energy payouts back to the grid, called Net Energy Metering (NEM). This could reduce payouts from $0.30 per kilowatt to a pallet $0.08, according to an analysis by the clean energy business group California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA), reducing the possibility of recouping installation costs in less than 10 years.

Reuters notes that the new proposal included an additional $900 million to support battery and solar systems, mostly for low-income customers, and that the CPUC has previously said it wants to encourage battery storage over selling excess power. The CPUC also said that the adjusted NEM rates would only affect new solar installations, and current panel owners can continue selling back to the grid at the higher rate.

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Hawkins, Indiana, may be home to murderous monsters, but it’s way less threatening when you toss in campy musical numbers and silly wigs.

You get plenty of both in Stranger Sings: The Parody Musical, which bills itself as a “hilarious ‘upside down’ take” on the hit Netflix horror drama about young friends facing supernatural forces in a fictional ’80s town. It’s playing off-Broadway in New York now, and runs through Jan. 1 in London. The show comes to Melbourne, Australiain November, with more Australian cities on the docket.

With its colorful cast of ragtag characters, big ’80s hair and bulky portable phones that could double as doorstops, the series practically begged for musical satire, says Jonathan Hogue, writer and producer of Stranger Sings.

“When I started exploring this series as a parody musical, the songs and story beats all fell into place so naturally, as if the show was meant to be musicalized, and parodied, from the beginning,” says Hogue, a big fan of the Duffer brothers’ creation, which ended its fourth season in August. “Who doesn’t want to see Joyce get a big brassy showstopper with her Christmas lights? Or Barb become a vengeful musical diva?”

The rest of the gang’s here for the musical version too: Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will, Eleven Hopper, Steve and Jonathan. Stranger Sings follows season 1’s story arc, which explains the reappearance of poor,