Governor Newsom’s CPUC has proposed to break the state’s contract with nearly two million solar customers, slash their solar credit, and slap them with a solar tax.
A former SoCal Edison lobbyist, Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, has filed a bill to make this proposal law (AB 942).
These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2).
AB 942 is scheduled for a hearing on April 30th. There is talk of tweaking the bill so lawmakers can break solar contracts while selling it as a “compromise.” Don’t let them get away with it."
Demands have risen sharply, sometimes exceeding the total generation capacitiy of electric utilities. But for the utilities forcasts are difficult to make because
• data center customers have placed simultanous orders with different utilities in the same area
• the Trump tariffs make construction costs of new facilities unpredictable
• it is unclear how electricity consumptive AI is really going to get.
Thus building too little capacity may risk brownouts (not "blackouts" as the article states) while building too much may increase prices for consumers and housholds.
"Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI"
The not so hidden costs of the so-called AI. This is your contribution every single time you use Copilot, ChatGPT and all that crap, and if you do really believe the "...with carbon capture technology..." part, at best, you're naive.
https://www.europesays.com/1929682/ Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act could wipe $160 billion off US GDP. A full repeal this year would cause significant damage to the US economy, triggering nearly 790,000 job losses by 2030 and reducing GDP by more than $160 billion. Household energy bills could increase $370 per year on average. #Energy
The two *leaders* spoke by phone Tues morning & discussed the need for "a lasting peace agreement" as well as " improved bilateral relations between the #UnitedStates & #Russia," acc/to a White House stmnt. "The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an #energy & #infrastructure#ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the #BlackSea, full ceasefire & permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the #MiddleEast”
The New Joule Order, a report this week by the Carlyle Group, argues that large parts of the world are about to decarbonise at breakneck speed for reasons that have nothing to do with net zero. They want to rid themselves off traded oil and gas because these fuels are a strategic danger, & because there are now better alternatives. #energy#renewables “The energy transformation is on the cusp of re-accelerating. It will be driven by the quest for security, with nations creating a diversified energy mix of joules to insulate themselves from geopolitical, macro and financial risks,”
https://www.europesays.com/1918653/ Energy production in the US has renewables on the climb and dirty Energy on the slope in spite of Trumps opposition. Each unit of energy has never been so clean. #Energy