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usonian

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1. OPINION: The California Public Utilities Commission serves the utilities. Period.

Reply to Think. Again. (Original post)

Mon Aug 28, 2023, 10:46 AM

Aug 2023

The current axe in the back of people is the reduction of solar power payback to home users.
It is supposedly to "encourage battery storage" (lies)
In my opinion, grid storage is best done at large scale, because there really is an economy of scale. One large facility versus thousands of replicated home facilities, each with batteries, controllers and so on. And I really believe in distributed systems.

Expect the worst from the CPUC and they come up with something even more crushing.

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OPINION: The California Public Utilities Commission serves the utilities. Period. usonian Aug 2023 #1

Well, they already made solar completely unfeasible for me The Mouth Aug 2023 #2