It would take about an hour to do the math. Compare the available supply with the expected demand. However…
Posted on 02/01/2025 7:58:28 AM PST by karpov
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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Yeh. What happens when 200 households in a subdivision plug in their electric cars at the same moment?
It’s almost as if California is being governed by Pol Pot.
Excellent commercial would be
“IF you love sweating in your darkened home, with no running water much of the time, missing work because brownouts have left you unable to charge your state mandated electric car, and you value fish over people, and you think your state gov should dictate nearly everything you can do, and you want big gov to think for you, then by all means keep voting democrat!
If you want to prosper, have adequate electricity, running water, an effective fire department and water system that doesnt run out, and just generally value your freedom and want decide ehat is best for you rather than your state deciding that for you, then vote republican! “
“Ah yes, I almost forgot. What to do about the “little people”? Tut tut.”
The mayor is a full-blown Communist and was instrumental in forming M19.In the 80’s. I doubt it she has changed.
It is very simple, “they” want us dead.
"So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in feelings it gains rather than loses in stability when it is subjected to strong factual arguments in opposition. For if it were accepted as a result of argument, the refutation of the argument might shake the solidarity of the conviction; but when it rests solely on feelings, the worse it fares in argumentative contest, the more persuaded it adherents are that their feelings must have some deeper ground, which the contrary arguments do not reach; and while the feeling remains, it is always throwing up fresh entrenchments of argument to repair any breach made in the old."
These people are truly without hope.
It would take about an hour to do the math. Compare the available supply with the expected demand. However…
The Government, Power Companies or the Wall Street Journal?
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are smart meters why my heater/ac thermostat is set at a certain temp and shows current temp as the same .....
( it is supposed to turn on when 3 or more degrees off what thermostat is set at )
...yet turns on anyways ? or even worse set on heat and wakes me up blowing cold air for 5 minutes after it turns on and 5 minutes before it shuts down,, thus robbing the heat back that i just payed for ? ( landlord says its a cool down function to prolong equipment life.) .
“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?”
Oh PLEASE, cannot even get through ONE SENTENCE.
Nothing was overlooked, as I always say, these people are FAR SMARTER than we are and they have just as many, probably many more scientists and engineers on their side telling them exactly what we’re saying.
It’s time for Conservatives to FINALLY figure out that these people are not ‘misguided’ (as that implies they have good intentions), but instead are PURE EVIL. They know exactly what they are doing, EXACTLY what they are doing, and thankfully Trump seems to understand that, this time.
They need a General Pinochet big time.
“”So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in feelings it gains rather than loses in stability when it is subjected to strong factual arguments in opposition.”
They are NOT “rooted in feelings”, they are PURE EVIL. Some of their Useful Idiots may be rooted in feelings, but the ones at the top know EXACTLY what they are doing.
Think about it - have they ever made a ‘mistake’ that favors our side? If they haven’t, then they’re not dumb, but instead they know EXACTLY what they are doing.
John Stuart Mill.
Just FYI.
Thanks.
What keeps families in one of the most polluted places in California?
I had a relatively small house in California. By moving out of California I am in a bigger house and I am saving at least $500 a month on utilities. Maybe more.
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