Posted on 07/31/2024 7:58:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Louisiana’s major electric utilities are still pushing state regulators to allow them to charge customers for the costs of a new statewide energy efficiency program and for the electricity customers will no longer need because of that program.
A large group that included Louisiana Public Service Commission staff, utility company executives, consumer advocates and other energy experts met Wednesday to evaluate bids from companies that want to oversee Louisiana’s new energy efficiency program.
The LPSC’s new energy efficiency program will require certain statewide energy savings targets. Hitting those targets could require the administrator to implement things like appliance upgrades for large commercial buildings or smaller efforts like helping low-income customers insulate their homes.
While the idea might seem like a straightforward solution to cut back on waste, utility company executives aren’t very happy with it. In general, utility companies earn more profit when homes and businesses waste electricity. Less waste leads to lower electric bills, which could mean lower profits for the utilities.
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Coming and going.
Getting charged for a product you are NOT using?
That is roughly akin to being FORCED at gun point to pay a “voluntary tax” or with the same government gun to be forced to buy “health insurance”...
IOW... I can easily see our political Master’s doing exactly this to help benefit their re-election campaign coffers.
That is not a good plan. It sounds like gouging, bordering on stealing b/c you have a monopoly on that service.
They could bring companies that use electricity and jobs to Louisiana.
LOL...we had the same thing here in California thirty years ago. The curbside recycling programs were so successful that the amount of waste going to the dump went way down and the garbage company had to jack rates way up.
I never could figure that out, though. Maybe their contract stipulated they were paid by the ton collected.
You have to pay more for appliances that don’t last as long to reduce electricity use, and then pay for the electricity you are not using. By the way, you also have to pay more in taxes to subsidize putting insulation in low-income housing as well as paying more for electricity to make up the shortfall of their electricity use.
More Insanity
I used to have one of those in my 5th wheel trailer, although mine used propane.
Texas probably could use the capacity of a plant in Louisiana.
Here in Virginia, we pay a fee for what amounts to standby capacity, if we have solar panels. It is based on a fraction your highest electricity bill for the preceding twelve months. In my case, it comes to less than ten dollars per month and is typically four or five dollars and is almost always absorbed by the net metering credit.
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That is roughly akin to being FORCED at gun point to pay a “voluntary tax” or with the same government gun to be forced to buy “health insurance”...
Similar to the government buying Covid vaccines, then forcing people to use them.
Must be nice for businesses when the government forces people to pay for your product.
They earn more when customers USE electricity. Waste is the wrong word, as if some outside entity (government) is assigning value to the customer’s power consumption.
That said, if they use less, they pay less. That’s why it’s sold by the Kilowatt-hour. Often with a service fee for maintaining the connection, but that’s usually pretty low.
If utilities were mandated by gov’mt to do certain things then the ratepayers need to pay.
For example, if they were forced to install wind turbines — which then failed (imagine my surprise) — then the ratepayers need to pay ‘cause it was not the utilities’ decision to install that crappola.
What steps preceded this mess? Don’t play the commie trash game and ignore history. Like ignoring the impacts of an open border: wage depression, welfare , murders, etc.
With Government efficiency being defined as how many things they can make you do in that gun pointing incident.
We were buying a gas stove and I saw they had natural gas refrigerators. They were about the same price as the electric refrigerator I was looking at and the power does go out around here three or four times a year. Since we were having gas lines run anyway I decided to go for it. I would say it costs about 40% less to run than the old one.
I’d expect this stupidity out of California, Washington state or NY.....not Louisiana. SMH
What a grand insult to injury!
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