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California regulators cut incentives for rooftop solar even further (www.canarymedia.com)
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[โ€“] BaldProphet@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rates were rising for low-income people who would never have been able to avail themselves of these incentives partially as a result of some of the incentives. Requiring utilities to buy the electricity at the same rate they sell it at, rather than the commercial rate, was never going to be sustainable in the long-run without causing massive cost increases for those who can afford them the least.

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 9 months ago

Yes, but this is about an additional cut - for the few hours per year when having additional power from peoples' batteries means that no new generation capacity is needed. Avoiding those costs benefits everybody, and deciding not to compensate folks for it isn't a good move.