Flawed And Basic Analysis From MIT. The movie has been seen before, solar homeowners reduce their consumption and therefore pay for less of the fixed grid costs that are added to your bill on a per kWh basis. I have come to expect more from MIT but will continue to be disappointed. When someone says that solar owners shift their costs to other energy consumers they do so at great investment, much like a homeowner that installs all new appliances and air conditioners that use less electricity. What about people that change their light bulbs to LEDs or install a tankless water heater fueled by gas? All of those situations decrease kWh consumption and thereby lower infrastructure payments. We will also ignore seasonal homeowners in this conversation. What about homeowners that buy electric vehicles, should they be given a discount on their consumption since they are absorbing more of the infrastructure but not paying a gas tax that pays for the roads they travel? Here is the reality, this isn’t a one-way analysis and a fixed charge is far from a solution to this non-existent problem. Solar owners buy less kWh from the utility and therefore pay less for the infrastructure. Solar owners also firm up the infrastructure with their investment and make the utility less likely to have to invest in the infrastructure. When the payments lost are less than the savings gained, solar owners come out in the green. They save money for other utility customers and experts have shown this time and time again.
The Importance Of Quality. Congratulations to CALSSA for tackling the important issue of consumer protection and making it a standard for its members. Homeowners will have another way to know if a contractor is doing it the right way and not pulling a fast one on them, whether they are doing it with aggressive sales tactics, dubious financing or subpar installation techniques. SEIA has a guide as well and I’d like to see that expanded to the installation/products side of things as well.
San Francisco’s Muni Power. San Francisco is asking PG&E to let it go, offering $2.5billion for the electric infrastructure so that the city can create its own utility system like Los Angeles and Sacramento. They are not asking to acquire the gas system. San Francisco has voiced interest since the bankruptcy and now wants the company to ask the courts to let it make the deal. Voters have already approved the funding mechanism so the city can buy the wires and no further votes (through election) would have to be taken. PG&E didn’t say no explicitly in their comment but “we’re not interested” would have saved us a minute of reading. This story is not over yet, stay tuned…
Island Infrastructure. It’s been two years since Puerto Rico was ravaged by Hurricane Maria and the industry spent time to figure out the best way to rebuild the electric infrastructure. The upper Bahamas are now in a similar situation, some islands left with nothing, after Hurricane Dorian last week. The Bahamas have to rebuild in a way that serves the tourism economy and tries to create some sustainability. Most transportation is marine and aviation so all-electric is impossible today but how can we help the Bahamians with our lessons learned?
- MIT: The economics of rooftop solar
- PV-Magazine: CALSSA implements consumer protection code
- San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco makes $2.5 billion offer for PG&E electric system
- Axios: Bahamas island faces oil spill after Hurricane Dorian
- Utility Dive: PG&E bankruptcy plan includes $14B equity commitments, no liability estimates – Bloomberg
- Fox: California law to exempt wildfire victims from solar rules
- Renew Economy: Wind, solar and storage prompt re-design of Australia’s energy market
- Bloomberg: CDC Links THC Vaping Products to Lung Illness
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Best, Yann
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