California wants to kill rooftop solar — all because officials duped by this flawed theory | Too many officials have bought a key utility company excuse for rising energy prices — solar "cost shift"

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• PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can have my solar panels after you pry my guns from my cold dead hands.

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• jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And yet California mandates that all new construction have solar panels.

  Fuck the power companies. They need to be taken over by the government.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  California’s latest attack on rooftop solar comes from AB942, which would retroactively break contracts with millions of solar consumers by cutting the compensation they receive from providing energy to the grid if their home is sold or transferred. Those with solar leases, who are predominantly lower income, will be forced to buy out those contracts when they sell.

  Why would the state do that to solar users?

  For the same reason they’ve spent the past several years trying to make it financially untenable for homeowners to add rooftop solar: Too many officials have bought a key utility company excuse for rising energy prices — solar “cost shift.”

  I’m not a fan of him ascribing an action to “obviously it must be this” without any backup.

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• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They weren’t duped. They were bribed.

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• Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think the author of this article understands what he wrote, or purposely omitting key things about grid balancing. The problem with rooftop solar incentives is they encourage solar production during the day when the sun is out, but do nothing when the sun settles. California has to switch to other types of energy such as batteries, natural gas plants, etc. The grid is already saturated with energy during the day, even into negative prices. Utilities are paying into these rooftops, perhaps at retail prices, for something that does not address the energy gaps through the timeline of 24 hour power generation. California’s rooftop solar does not balance out the system.

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