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https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/08/11/solar-highlights-in-the-senates-3-5-trillion-budget-proposal/

Solar highlights in the Senate’s $3.5 trillion budget proposal The budget bill aims to fight climate change with investments in clean electricity and home electrification, to be funded by higher taxes on corporations.

What could happen if AB gets passed!😱

Assembly Bill 1139 (Gonzalez) would bring California’s rooftop solar and storage market to a
screeching halt, slowing the state’s clean energy progress while harming businesses and jobs.
The bill would:
 Make going solar more expensive for every ratepayer, including those on CARE.
 Eliminate NEM grandfathering for 1.0 and 2.0 customers, including schools and farms.
 Introduce new $50-$86/month solar "grid access" fees.
 Bottomline: The bill hurts low income and at-risk communities the most and does nothing
to create equity or diversity in the market, quite the opposite. It moves California
backward.
Committee amendments would:
 Delete statutory language from 2013 ensuring “sustainable growth” of rooftop solar via
NEM.
 Cause energy bills to increase for renters living in solarized buildings.
 Set retroactive changes for current solar customers, including low income, schools and
farms. Still ruins the economics of early adopters. 5 years from date of service for non-
CARE (including non-residential) and 10 years for CARE.
 Add high mandatory monthly fees applied only to solar users, including low-income.
 Add prevailing wage for solar installs (although this is a bit misleading as the bill
would undermine the entire job-supporting market).
 Eliminates the one good thing that was previously in AB 1139: funds for low-income and
at-risk communities to go solar.
 Strip the current bill and replace it with a so called “no cost shift” NEM 3 that goes into
effect Feb 2022 unless PUC adopts a NEM 3 by Feb 1, 2022.
Bottom-line, we will move from “oppose unless amended” to straight up “oppose” as the bill is
now worse than before.

We need to fight against this immediately! Or else we are doomed.

This an important update from an article the CALIFORNIA SOLAR AND STORAGE ASSOCIATION HAD POSTED.

The CPUC released a white paper the week before last on rising electricity rates showing that utilities charged California ratepayers $7.5 billion in transmission costs from 2016-2019 (page 39). This year, these expenses are up 38% statewide and 66% for PG&E alone. What’s incredible to learn is that 60% of these costs were “self-approved,” a term that seems to be new to even the regulators. Ever heard of the Averch-Johnson effect (see page 24)? It comes from the fact that utilities are incentivized to make large infrastructure investments (e.g. transmission) to drive an increase in their rate base and therefore, their profitability. Some centralized infrastructure investments are important, of course, and some are especially urgent given the recent wildfires and blackouts. However, without proper government oversight, an unchecked Averich-Johnson effect turns ratepayers into cash machines and utilities into engorged profit centers. From 2006-2017, PG&E made $13.6 billion in profits and paid $8.6 billion in dividends to their shareholders, and yet the grid has never been more fragile.What does this have to do with Net Metering (the policy that allows consumers to spin the meter backwards for a bill credit that makes solar cost effective)? Net Metering breaks this cycle of utilities taking advantage of ratepayers. Read more here.

IF ANYONE OF YOU ARE NOT OK WITH THIS THEN WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK!

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/cheap-renewable-energy-vs-fossil-fuels/

We are such a time where renewable energy is more accessible and more affordable than ever!!!!🔥🔥🔥

Solar power got cheap. So why aren’t we using it more? The cost of renewable energy, and solar in particular, has plummeted in the last decade. So why has there not been a green revolution?