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  • California's Plan: Make the Poor Sweat in the Dark

    From John Smyth@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 1 11:45:28 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans, talk.politics.guns

    California’s Plan: Make the Poor Sweat in the Dark

    Electrification advocates overlook a key question: Where is all the
    electricity going to come from?

    <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4294110/posts>

    'California’s headlong rush to force people to buy electric cars,
    trucks, boilers and stoves has skipped over a key detail: Where is all
    the electricity going to come from, and how will it be delivered?

    While mandating electrification, California’s regulators have also
    imposed pricing strategies that punish consumers for using electricity
    when they most need it. Coupled with the rising costs of wind and solar generation—and the cost of backstopping that generation with batteries—electricity is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

    For nearly 20 years California’s investor-owned utilities have been installing “smart meters” that measure electricity use in real time. The utilities have instituted time-of-use pricing, which charges higher
    rates when electricity demand peaks. The goal is to encourage consumers
    to reduce electricity usage.

    Southern California Edison charges residential customers 73 cents per kilowatt-hour between 5 and 8 p.m. during the summer. That’s
    significantly higher than the average annual residential rate in
    California, which was more than 32 cents through November 2024. San
    Diego Gas & Electric charges some residential customers $1.16 per
    kilowatt-hour on “Reduce Your Use Event” days, which the California
    Public Utilities Commission allows the company to declare up to 18 times
    a year. Further north, Pacific Gas & Electric charges residential
    customers 56 cents per kilowatt-hour during the summer between 4 and 8
    p.m.

    Rationing by price may be economists’ preferred strategy to address
    scarcity, but it ignores a crucial reality: Forcing consumers to rely
    almost entirely on electricity requires it to be available and
    affordable.

    The high time-of-use prices are especially hard on consumers living in
    inland counties where summer temperatures routinely exceed 100 degrees.
    Air conditioning is essential in these counties, which have the highest
    poverty rates in the state. Many residents received monthly electric
    bills in summer 2024 exceeding $1,000'

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to John Smyth on Sat Feb 1 20:08:52 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans, talk.politics.guns

    On 2025-02-01, John Smyth <[email protected]> wrote:
    California’s Plan: Make the Poor Sweat in the Dark

    Electrification advocates overlook a key question: Where is all the electricity going to come from?

    <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4294110/posts>

    'California’s headlong rush to force people to buy electric cars,
    trucks, boilers and stoves has skipped over a key detail: Where is all
    the electricity going to come from, and how will it be delivered?

    While mandating electrification, California’s regulators have also
    imposed pricing strategies that punish consumers for using electricity
    when they most need it. Coupled with the rising costs of wind and solar generation—and the cost of backstopping that generation with batteries—electricity is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

    For nearly 20 years California’s investor-owned utilities have been installing “smart meters” that measure electricity use in real time. The utilities have instituted time-of-use pricing, which charges higher
    rates when electricity demand peaks. The goal is to encourage consumers
    to reduce electricity usage.

    Southern California Edison charges residential customers 73 cents per kilowatt-hour between 5 and 8 p.m. during the summer. That’s
    significantly higher than the average annual residential rate in
    California, which was more than 32 cents through November 2024. San
    Diego Gas & Electric charges some residential customers $1.16 per kilowatt-hour on “Reduce Your Use Event” days, which the California Public Utilities Commission allows the company to declare up to 18 times
    a year. Further north, Pacific Gas & Electric charges residential
    customers 56 cents per kilowatt-hour during the summer between 4 and 8
    p.m.

    Rationing by price may be economists’ preferred strategy to address scarcity, but it ignores a crucial reality: Forcing consumers to rely
    almost entirely on electricity requires it to be available and
    affordable.

    The high time-of-use prices are especially hard on consumers living in
    inland counties where summer temperatures routinely exceed 100 degrees.
    Air conditioning is essential in these counties, which have the highest poverty rates in the state. Many residents received monthly electric
    bills in summer 2024 exceeding $1,000'

    You can count on anything CA does to be a massive overrun cost and abject failure.
    Put a hypocrite like Newsom in charge and it only gets worse.

    CA is the poster child for how to ruin a state with liberal policies.


    --
    pothead

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