Switching California from gas to electricity, one neighborhood at a time | Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines

Switching California from gas to electricity, one neighborhood at a…

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/policy-regulation/switching-california-from-gas-to-electricity-one-neighborhood-at-a-time

Clean-energy advocates hope a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature will jump-start projects that shut down gas pipelines and help homes and…

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deegeese

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How convenient, right after they bribed their captive regulator to slash reimbursement rates for home solar, they force everyone to pay time of use electric rates.

PG&E is a criminal conspiracy.

Sl00k

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Let's not forget how will only buy electricity back at a variable yet, sell it at a static rate and keep the profit.

Also up charging a tax on selling electricity back into the grid for "use of their equipment", which understandable i get but again c'mon.

The realistic progress needing to be done here is a battery storage solution as power needed during intense solar days is effectively 0% in California nowadays. We need to store that energy and use it during night but then it eats into PG&Es profits and we can't have that can we?

Everything done under the guise of "progress" is helping a corporation somewhere.

Buddahriffic

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Sounds to me like the best way to progress at this point would be to nationalize the utility and focus it on power generation and management rather than profit.

And IMO similar could be said about many things.

skuzz

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We've used piped gas into homes since the 1820s. Good riddance.

SzethFriendOfNimi

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I know it’s not the point of the article but seeing a person in a trench/ditch with no reinforcement and no slope makes me so nervous.

That’s a bad way to go if it collapses.

https://www.osha.gov/trenching-excavation

The more I look at it the more it may not be quite 5 feet requiring it. Here’s hoping so.

hesusingthespiritbomb

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I feel like there are a lot of systemic problems with the electrical grid in California that need to be addressed before projects like this happen.

As far as I can tell there has never been any sort of reckoning among management at California utilities for the decades of underinvestment and mismanagement.

silence7

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PG&E literally went bankrupt because they didn't inspect a powerline, and the cast-iron hooks holding it up swung slowly back and forth over a century until they wore through, dropping a live powerline to the ground, sparking a fire, and causing towns to burn down.

hesusingthespiritbomb

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Yeah so unless there was a complete overhaul that involved firing multiple layers of management maybe putting more load on the grid isn't the best idea.

silence7

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The bankruptcy took out a big chunk of their executive team, and induced a huge investment in grid upgrades. So completely reasonable actually.