Some companies are leaving the state or reducing their presence there after California greatly reduced incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels.
Reducing the incentives for residential solar and battery storage also reduces the resilience of the power grid, something which Puerto Rico in the wake of the last hurricane shows us is vital. Having the efficiency of large solar plants is great when everything is perfect, but if your power is cut due to high winds and dry weather, known as a PSPS, or the power lines are downed by an earthquake, local solar and power storage helps people keep their homes and lives running, and prevents the deaths of the chronically ill, children, and seniors who are most vulnerable to temperature extremes.
Put another way, we should be expanding residential solar and local power storage, and make it more affordable than ever so the people most at risk due to climate change, people too poor to escape it, are provided local power generation from that giant fusion reactor in the sky. Instead, solar becomes more and more out of reach. Also, you can always tell how politicians feel about something. Unlike the Federal government, California doesn’t offer a tax credit for clean energy generation and storage, which aligns perfectly with the profit motives of Governor Newsom’s best friends at PG&E and SCE (over $1MM in campaign donations last I heard).
but if your power is cut due to high winds and dry weather, known as a PSPS, or the power lines are downed by an earthquake, local solar and power storage helps people keep their homes and lives running
The majority of people with solar panels on their houses don’t have power storage and also have their power turned off during PSPS and other outages.
Put another way, we should be expanding residential solar and local power storage, and make it more affordable than ever so the people most at risk due to climate change, people too poor to escape it, are provided local power generation from that giant fusion reactor in the sky.
I’d like to see solar panels and installation provided entirely free of charge to low-income homeowners and landlords of low-income tenants, but with a $68 billion budget deficit, I don’t see that happening in California any time soon.
Reducing the incentives for residential solar and battery storage also reduces the resilience of the power grid, something which Puerto Rico in the wake of the last hurricane shows us is vital. Having the efficiency of large solar plants is great when everything is perfect, but if your power is cut due to high winds and dry weather, known as a PSPS, or the power lines are downed by an earthquake, local solar and power storage helps people keep their homes and lives running, and prevents the deaths of the chronically ill, children, and seniors who are most vulnerable to temperature extremes.
Put another way, we should be expanding residential solar and local power storage, and make it more affordable than ever so the people most at risk due to climate change, people too poor to escape it, are provided local power generation from that giant fusion reactor in the sky. Instead, solar becomes more and more out of reach. Also, you can always tell how politicians feel about something. Unlike the Federal government, California doesn’t offer a tax credit for clean energy generation and storage, which aligns perfectly with the profit motives of Governor Newsom’s best friends at PG&E and SCE (over $1MM in campaign donations last I heard).
The majority of people with solar panels on their houses don’t have power storage and also have their power turned off during PSPS and other outages.
I’d like to see solar panels and installation provided entirely free of charge to low-income homeowners and landlords of low-income tenants, but with a $68 billion budget deficit, I don’t see that happening in California any time soon.