http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/05/energy-expert-predicts-solar-could-upend-major-utility-in-california-on-price
While I am Pro Photovoltaic Energy production (you know, there's this thing - THE SUN - that bombards the planet with _free_ energy 365 days a year... Collecting some of it to power our civilization seems like a no-brainer!)
... This solar program (as any government subsidized thing) is touted as _the_ path to a glorious and shiny _green_ future is more likely to be a road to ruin.
I know we (the USA) tend, with good reason, to be an anti monopoly nation. The idea being that we were set up to not have all the power centralized in one place plus competition breeds innovation and quality at lower (competitive) prices, etc.
The problem with these types of programs, such is the case with this Utility in Northern California (coupled with all the other ever increasing socialistic government regulation and bureaucracy) is that it ultimately burdens and destroys rather than prospers and builds (anyone recall the late, great USSR?).
In this instance (as in many, many across the country), this utility (PG&E) in Northern California is being forced to essentially pay to build the artificially created competition's infrastructure while having to increase prices in order to attempt to continue maintaining and operating the utility.
These artificially higher prices basically help subsidize the cheaper energy costs of the competition and drive the customers away from the utility to the Solar competitors until the utility (logically) ultimately fails.
Well, pretty much all of the Solar (Photovoltaic) systems that are being installed are _grid-tied,_ basically meaning that it's wired into the electric company's system so that while the solar panels are generating power that's being sent into the _grid_ and stored until used.
Well, boys and girls, the _grid __*IS*_ the very infrastructure that is wholly maintained by the utility that is being forced into ruin and if it fails, then all those _grid-tied_ systems will virtually be useless (after finishing the utility that efficiently maintains and delivers your conventional electrical power on the very infrastructure its solar competitors are _tied_ to and dependent upon - so, kinda like a virus)!
So, aren't you glad that you get to pay higher and higher taxes and higher prices for goods and services so that you can proudly help fund programs like these?!
#Solar #Communism
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