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Solar power buybacks? other states?
FrancF
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Wondering if other states have it? California's Power buyback program is comming to an end.
California's landmark efforts to increase solar power, supported by environmentalists, state leaders and the governor, could be in peril.
In the next few months, PG&E, the largest utility company in the state, will reach the cap on how much solar energy it will buy back from customers. If the Legislature fails to pass a new bill raising that cap, new solar users in PG&E's territory won't be eligible for the benefits currents users enjoy, which some fear could bring the rise of solar energy in California to a grinding halt.
"It will destroy the industry," said Ken Adelman, a retired high-tech exec and resident of Corralitos who has the largest residential solar power system in the state.
The California Solar Initiative, a top environmental goal of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was approved in January by the California Public Utilities Commission as a way to bolster the growing solar industry. It allocates $2.8 billion in incentives for solar projects of all sizes over the next 11 years. The objective is to bring 3,000 megawatts of solar energy online, enough to power about 3 million homes.
California's landmark efforts to increase solar power, supported by environmentalists, state leaders and the governor, could be in peril.
In the next few months, PG&E, the largest utility company in the state, will reach the cap on how much solar energy it will buy back from customers. If the Legislature fails to pass a new bill raising that cap, new solar users in PG&E's territory won't be eligible for the benefits currents users enjoy, which some fear could bring the rise of solar energy in California to a grinding halt.
"It will destroy the industry," said Ken Adelman, a retired high-tech exec and resident of Corralitos who has the largest residential solar power system in the state.
The California Solar Initiative, a top environmental goal of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was approved in January by the California Public Utilities Commission as a way to bolster the growing solar industry. It allocates $2.8 billion in incentives for solar projects of all sizes over the next 11 years. The objective is to bring 3,000 megawatts of solar energy online, enough to power about 3 million homes.
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We in nM don't have to worry about buybacks or giveaways; we get all the solar we need and then some!
Most days deliver enough Langleys to power anything you'd want to run, but every now and then we get a cloud.
In short CA would give you a A big hunk of money if you installed a solar system. Then the power Co's jumped on the band wagon saying they would pay you X amount of $$ for power that your system pumped back into the system. (IE if you produced enough for your meter to run backwards etc.)
If I had the land I would love to take myself off the Grid. However the incentive to do that is no longer in PG&E's plan. (PG&E controls about 2/3ds of the states power).
So basicly in the future, here in CA, you will no longer be able to sell power back to the provider.
Would like to add all the other perks and glitches but the details are a nightmare.
Tell ya If I could get off the state power grid, I would do it in a heart beat.
Jeff