The California PUC has halted NEM3.0, which would have reduced the amount per kWh that customers with solar get when they sell their power back to the grid. NEM3.0 would discourage future solar customers from getting solar. The utilities are claiming that the money that is saved by solar customers is costing the non-solar customers
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The $7.5 Billion for EV charging infrastructure. Quote << The United States needs 70 million EVs and a 20 percent reduction in vehicle miles traveled (a way we measure transportation emissions — the total miles traveled in a vehicle each year per person) by 2030 to keep us safe from the worst impacts of climate
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This is why 70,000 Texans are without power after the freeze this week. Nice to know that Gov. Abbot is sacrificing Texans for money. https://youtube.com/shorts/qPxLCioEhao More about the (un)reliability of the Texas natural gas supply and why it’s not as cheap as renewables plus storage. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-hidden-costs-of-keeping-gas-plants-online-in-texas-beyond/
This 53 minute PBS Frontline video documents Trump’s attempts to cripple and cancel the EPA – Environmental Protection Administration. This “drain the swamp” trumpism was actually creating a swamp-like environmental catastrophe in the US. https://youtu.be/vFfYKOTj-48
This is in Indiana in Indiana courts. But it may set precedent for future rulings in other state or federal courts. Consumers with rooftop solar are getting fed up with the utilities changing or removing the pay that they’re getting for selling solar power back to the utility. The court needs to make a rule
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Court upholds California Net Neutrality Law. This is a blow to the telecom providers, that wanted to throttle the speeds of users to make more money. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-california-telecommunications-jerry-brown-2db073ce6d11c7274fd9c6291d3c411b
This year, Foxconn is set to produce pickup EVs at the Lordstown plant. Quote: << Depending on who you ask/believe, the Lordstown concept was an evolution of the Workhorse electric vehicle project that originally acquired the Ohio factory from GM in a highly politicized sale that, many believe, helped then-president Donald Trump solidify support in
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This is an interesting theory. https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/
The Utilities are complaining about net metering, that the rooftop solar owners are getting back too much money so the non-solar customers must be charged more to make up for the utilities’ losses. They say this is unfair to non-solar customers. To me, this looks like the utilities have a flawed business model. They should
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They say this is big news. We *need* to have many interconnections between the Eastern and Western power grids. And Texas, too if they had common sense. Several DC interties need to be built so the west can send electricity to the east during daytime. https://electrek.co/2022/01/13/the-big-upgrade-to-the-us-power-grid-is-kicking-off/
