California officials are pressing for further cuts to the electric bill credits people with rooftop solar panels can earn, in a move that would align the state with its for-profit utilities at the expense of consumers who invested thousands of dollars to power their homes with renewable energy […] - ThreadSky

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cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy • 9 days ago

California officials are pressing for further cuts to the electric bill credits people with rooftop solar panels can earn,
in a move that would align the state with its for-profit utilities
at the expense of consumers who invested thousands of dollars to power their homes with renewable energy […]

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TimWardCam.c.im.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@cdarwin Fine the private utilities for any energy that they cannot use? Thus giving them an incentive to ramp up their battery (of whatever technology) deployment?

EverydayMoggie.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

I don't ordinarily boost LA Times stories because of the paywall, but this is something worth opposing. Probably don't want to get me started on for-profit control of utilites...

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brianvastag.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@cdarwin The electric utility on Oahu has for years been slow-walking permits for rooftop PV...it can take 2-3 years to get permitted. They had four people in the permitting office for an island with nearly a million people. Utilities hate rooftop PV and will only pay for the power generated if […]

darwinwoodka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@cdarwin stoopid

diontheedge.bsky.social•9 days ago

None of us are people. We are just potential sources of profit.

paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@cdarwin

What happens in California doesn’t stop in California.

This anti-consumer action will creep out.

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