Stand up to the utility attack on rooftop solar
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PG&E to-do list: Harm the public, scapegoat rooftop solar, repeat
This year, PG&E customers will get hit with a whopping 8% rate increase. That’s over six times the rate of inflation in one year alone. Not including this year’s budget-busting rate spike, PG&E rates have steadily increased 140% since 2000, nearly three times the rate of inflation (52%) over the last twenty years. Link to data The utilities’ favorite scapegoat:…
Utility bosses: If you make us look bad, there’s gonna be trouble
HGTV Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott recently made his directorial debut in the documentary Power Trip. Power Trip follows Scott as he travels through the United States uncovering a deeply entrenched, powerful system that’s preventing Americans from powering their lives with solar. Scott told the LA Times in a recent interview that at least one utility tried to pull his movie…
Rooftop solar is good for turtles and cactuses
Another week, another insightful piece by LA Times’ Sammy Roth. This time, Sammy highlights the tension between large-scale renewable energy and protecting open space in the California desert – and notes how rooftop solar can ameliorate this tension. The LA Times article cites two contrasting studies about how to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which is the Biden…