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Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have.

Opinion | Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/utility-bills-clean-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=TOWq8JotsUK47g01L8z_6qpuqMb0Zb6ediJsQUxAigUCvk1g99Zv8uTWAneh1wRiUGmzV1jAOWUX2KOIUtDPdjg_qMZOa8DttYixZfH68UyTn1ciHvppYl4fCvWpeJpIgIYd5dpXoBILvgEteR3bcwnHAdj3qZO1q-Sl_KJrUHyYHdFsNmDWGmOGWtDeham5bqtaA7KJhEmAvgiZaov2CEEtsqpz3wYMLRiE-Hi__oBXYhzfXCG_cR0qgvaEbywxrDj3lyZaNtC6lWeWcunS31ST-AItM74UGYbfLj3C7DVB4u010zRws1MGw79ip1tYhtWOVNa5skQCOhLDMbydCJMXU54

As regulated monopolies, utilities have the unique ability to force customers to fund their political activities through monthly bills.

Opinion | Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/647217

But around the US, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition, and they are probably using your money to do it.

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FlanFlinger

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Meanwhile in Ireland

The new range of installation sizes - greater than 6 kWp up to 1,000 kWp (1 MW) capacity - will cover a variety of non-domestic businesses, from small local shops up to large manufacturing facilities. It will also be available for public buildings, sports clubs and community organisations.

The existing Non-Domestic Microgeneration Scheme is operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The enhanced pilot scheme supports are estimated to cost up to €15 million in 2023. Installations of up to 1MW could be eligible for a grant of up to €162,600

https://www.breakingnews.ie/business/ministers-ryan-and-coveney-announce-enhanced-solar-pv-scheme-1497601.html

silence7

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The political system in the US is designed to create competing centers of power, none of which has full control. This is an example of that: state governments and utility regulators in some states are engaged in policy at odds with federal government policy, which currently subsidizes a shift to wind and solar. The pay-to-play nature of much of US government is particularly problematic in this regard.

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This is one of those things that I kind of already knew but didn't want to think about because I have no control over it. Yea ofc my electric bill would be going towards anti-green energy lobbying, why wouldnt it? They say we have choice and freedom in our society but having to choose between funding this kind of bullshit that harms the planet and everyone on it or going without power is a non choice and I certainly wouldn't call it freedom.