California lowers incentives for rooftop solar panels
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2022
- The state has long led the nation in the adoption of rooftop solar panels, and today more than 1.5 million California homes and other buildings have them. Under a decades-old program, people with solar panels can get paid by their power companies by sharing excess solar energy they don't need, leading some solar homes to pay minimal electric bills.
Those of us with solar ARE helping to pay for the infrastructure! We pay a monthly fee plus inflated rates for every KW/h that we use above what our system generated. This is nothing but a ploy to keep the power out of the hands of the people and at the top of a souless corporation.
And don't think California leadership is on our side. They publicly talk the talk, yet from behind closed doors it ends up we always loose.
u are actually working with conjuction with the Power companies, under NEM 2.0 you are selling the excess solar you dont use back to the grid so the utiliities companies can sell the power back to the people who dont have solar. This has never been about having "power in your hands" unless you had a battery to store your excess energy.
@@TheDudeMaaaan No shit, thank you for explaining a process that I understand, all while not understanding what I was saying.
@@TheDudeMaaaan learn to talk. All you do is blab.
@@treehugger1640 and you play with toy trains as a grown as man so whos really the loser here
We should investigate the CPUC members financial records. This is nothing more then a giveaway to the utility companies.
This is the powerful utility companies winning and proving California democrats are not really about reducing carbon emissions.
The CPUC could have choosen a "middle ground", somthing like paying solar producers 50% of the retail rate of what goes back into the grid, instead they cut it right to wholesale. Also, their plan encourages lithium battery storage which is a poor use of limited lithium. Lithium is best used in EV's.
Democrats are about making themselves rich as you become poor
This is so devastating and frustrating.
Electric company owns the members on the ca public utilities commission. There is no other explanation.
Why in the hell would u get panels if I'm going to save 100.00? Freak that, I won't get shit!!
Don't forget... The electric car battery , can double as a home back up battery too!
Most can't currently feed back into the home.
So it's off grid or nothing. The problem is that if too many people go off grid the utilities will die like the dinosaurs did...
So solar dream is going to end.
Incredible saving? Can you say Money Grab.
Truly poor people don't pay income taxes and they receive financial support from working people. This is just one more subsidy. Plenty of people who aren't rich have solar panels and plenty more would like them so that same old CA rhetoric doesn't hold water.We have all seen how one party defines "rich". Other states are starved for solar panels so solar providers should simply turn their efforts to where their services are in demand.
Rich people either lmao
Ridiculous
If you want to know how working people already subsidize poor people through the utility rates you need to have a private conversation with someone who works on the utility's financials. Not your congressman, not your PUC rep on TV, not a lineman or office worker.
I don't understand your comment
@@videosuperhero100 He basically said they're speaking to the wrong people.
So, why don't you build more nuclear or coal facilities again?
Energy companies have been severely lagging in hardening the grid. Fishy now that solar exists this is their excuse for raising rates.
I want to read user comments, why are they hidden?
CZcams shadowbanning is alive and well.
@@DSC800 That’s how they build their false reality. Then In one short night, we all become slaves.
@@nonyabuiz2023 Musk needs to buy CZcams from Google to expose all the left wing crap.
@@DSC800 it’s straight up unconstitutional. It’s time for transparency and some good old class action lawsuit!
Are CA homeowners allowed to go off-grid?
Sounds like the only solution to being gouged.
Buy as much battery storage as you can to use your own stored energy at night and any other time that there's not enough sun for the day's needs.
Corporate California 🤦♂️ who do we need to vote out?
Really need to say who.
Because the ignorants of the panels. Ohms law 102 you only get about one tenth of rated out put. Its kind of what enron did. Should be measured in amps...
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There's a reason. California already has so much solar in its energy mix that it has become a problem. Without massive large scale battery storage adding more solar panels to CA is just a waste of everybody's time. It would be insane to continue to subsidize it. In a world where reason matters California needs more base plants. Since coal is out, that leaves NG and nuclear. Solar is problematic in that shoves an abundance of power onto the grid for a very small amount of time. It's intermittent. You can't live on wind and solar alone (until we have large scale battery storage).
Any excess power that is generated during peak times by solar and wind farms is immediately sold off to other utility providers or states. Im near the Palm Springs area and we have absolutely massive wind farms. You see them every time you drive on the 10. Almost all additional energy from those is sold to San Diego and Nevada when the Coachella valley can’t take on any more. These companies are just greedy. Less people using their grid means less required maintenance and more energy to sell to other states during peak hours.
Thats why the new solar systems all have to have a Tesla battery backup. I am getting one installed for free with a Tesla battery and will just pay a small reduced price. So at night So Cal can draw from the battery backup.
Solar Panels have never been cost effective its only for people who want to help the environment. The money you save you pay in the cost of the panels.
Nahh, not true. I went solar 6 years ago and it paid for itself in just 5 years when combined with my EV savings. Without the EV it would take 6 years. Now with installation slightly cheaper and kwh rates about 25% higher it would take 8-10 years if you you completely removed the fed subsidy.
@@DSC800 Wrong. Lies
100% wrong
@@leewilson5389 YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!! IM WHITE!
@@ChosenOne6666 no