Posted on 06/22/2017 5:55:08 PM PDT by artichokegrower
On 14 days during March, Arizona utilities got a gift from California: free solar power.
Well, actually better than free. California produced so much solar power on those days that it paid Arizona to take excess electricity its residents weren’t using to avoid overloading its own power lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What a scam!
And...how’s that working out for the taxpayers in CA?
Meh - a whole lot of them have, ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ as it is...
You can bet that AZ utilities did not share that largess with their customers, who probably paid full price on their bills. At least, that would be the way it would work in Texas.
They’re a bit more than double what they are here in Tennessee. PG&E residential rate just over 23 cents per KWH. There’s a special rate of 13 cents for “special” customers.
It’s around 11 cents here total. And there are places that are cheaper.
If not for the federal government, it would probably be about 8 or 9 cents here. If not for the California government, it would probably be a lot closer to ours in California too, and no special rate for deadbeats and illegals (or whatever those people are that get a special deal).
And here’s an article on recent blackouts because not enough electricity is being generated in CA to satisfy demand.
Guess maybe they should quit selling their excess solar. Ohhhh, riiiight!
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Power-Outage-Impacts-Thousands-Across-East-Bay-429652663.html
Shouldn’t a glut mean lower prices?
Electrical rates are economically gang banging those in CA.
Hard to believe these corrupt AHs in Sacramento haven’t been drug out of their offices yet.
Yet CA utilities issue penalties for excess use. Bastards.
No, they’re going up all over the state. They have to take more and more because the so-called leadership drove the state into a abyss during the past several decades. In November the state increases gas taxes nearly .15 per gallon.
From the article:
"That’s a good deal for Arizona, which uses what it is paid by California to reduce its own customers’ electricity bills. "
According to US DOE “More than one-fourth of California’s electricity supply comes from facilities outside the state” in 2016
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=CA
Yet this article says that many of California’s power plants are running at 1/3 of capacity because they have so much excess energy.
You don’t “overload” power lines by not consuming the available power.
Yup:
California produced so much solar power on those days that it paid Arizona to take excess electricity its residents weren’t using to avoid overloading its own power lines.
So instead of writing a check, why didn’t they just disconnect the solar panels for a few hours? Reporters are worthless.
You may if you are having to use those lines to ship excess power longer distances than usual.
Speaking for AZ, we'll take the power if you must give it away, but there is something lob-sided in CA if it comes to that...
You would think so but they keep allowing PG&E to raise rates. I think they’re trying to force everyone to go solar.
Lost power in So Cal at 1:00AM last night for 35 minutes. Cell Towers were up so I logged onto the Edison Website. Something like 30 outages and 3000 homes were down around So Cal.
Yes it is hot, but I expected better. More to come I suspect.
I find myself wondering how many billions of dollars the people of California were scammed out of to pay for “green energy”.
100% chance this LA Slimes article is BS. Noway CA gets enough electricity to power their socialist state without coal fired plants.
At my house in Arizona at the Colorado River, the electricity rates are 1/3 of my California rates. 8 cents KWH!!!
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