how is a utility company informed about a customer’s income?
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Who knows? Maybe the government spies on everyone, and gives the information to them.
“how is a utility company informed about a customer’s income? “
there are already income based utility programs. The customer has to provide copies of income slips.
https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/pipp-income-verification.pdf
They plan to have the state inform them from the tax returns.
And of course that will be done with the utmost respect of privacy.
Utmost.
Just trust Gavin.
The state income tax people will likely tell them which range a homeowner falls into.
Via the utility providing net metering.
They buy your electricity and you are being taxed on that income.
I don’t think they can tax on an off grid system
Kalifornia uses tax returns to keep tabs on who to flag to the companies...
“how is a utility company informed about a customer’s income?
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California makes you file a state income tax return in addition to your fedgov one. Your social security number and address are mandatory on it. When a utility runs your credit for hook up service guess what you have to give them yup your SSN or they will refuse to service your address. So they know the SSN number of the account holder and California will glady share it’s income tax data with approved entities. That’s how they do it.
Here I thought the commies couldn’t turn off the sun. They still can’t they will just tax the sun instead. At some point they will just force people off the grid entirely it becomes cheaper and cheaper by the day as battery technology improves cost comes down when storage costs hit 20 cents per kWh over the lifetime of the powerwall it’s cheaper to go off grid than to pay for retail electricity in California.
I have two powerwalls they are second life automotive cells they hold 30kWh each or about two days worth of use. I’m demoing them so zero cost to me as I absolutely abuse them doing 80% DOD cycles. Once I write the white paper for the company under contact I’ll have the final numbers on LCOS; it’s looking like with a ten year lifetime to 50% capacity at the level of abuse they are taking is going to near 15 cents per kWh already competitive in commiefornia. Very few people will ever cycle their cells to 80% DOD every other day this is on purpose abuse the worst possible scenarios.