California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program::undefined

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    11 months ago

    Not from California, what happened? Why was the program implemented and then scrapped?

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      11 months ago

      The CPUC board, appointed by governer Newsom, gets to set the rules.

      The utilities including PGE and So Cal Edison apparently own said governer.

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      They decided to pay wholesale prices for electricity sold back to the grid instead of residential prices. That means that any excess power sold goes from around 33 cents to 6 cents, meaning that most people won’t see a change in their bills after installing solar because most households use power at night when there is no sun. This leads to people just not installing solar panels anymore.