California: PUC proposal to tax solar power could chill climate for fuel savings

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, February 16, 2003 | David Lazarus

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Modesto resident Bob DeMont took the California energy crisis real seriously. During the worst of the shortages, he cut power consumption at his home by 40 percent and has since gone on to install a $115,000 solar system on his roof.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

HUH?

The PUC is screwing up what they want to encourage for petes sake!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[NormsRevenge]

Unbelievable!

..a plan to impose fees on all solar generation statewide. The proposed fees, which the state Public Utilities Commission is expected to vote on later this month, are intended to help cover the billions of dollars California spent trying to avoid rolling blackouts during the past few years.

The Davi$ Depression Legacy :-\

[Myrddin]

The good news is that this stuff is portable. Offended Californians can put the gear on the truck with the rest of their personal effects on the way to a more reasonable state.

[First_Salute]

By right of fairness, I claim 50% of all the assets, and none of the debts, of the administrative law judge; that judge must share my burdens.

[First_Salute]

headlines:

Democrats claim authority to redistribute solar energy

[tubebender]

That's why state regulators are looking at imposing between 2 cents and 5 cents per kilowatt hour in fees for anyone with an off-grid system,

5 cents a kilowatt is about half of what big users pay for electricity isn't it ? I don't have my PG&E bill in front of me but I think we pay about 13 cents for peak use and 9 cents for off peak here at home. I'll find out in the morning.

[The Electrician]

Are those who now switch to solar passing along their share of the burden to others? That's what an administrative law judge concluded recently and what state regulators will be deciding on in coming weeks.

This is very telling - the guiding "principle" to these statists is that there should be no possible means of escape for anybody - in other words, bringing the Berlin Wall approach to a state government near you. We have already seen that mindset in many other guises - in the punitive regulations hastily enacted to punish corporations incorporating offshore, in the imposition of the Alternative Minimum Tax that each year ensnares more and more innocent taxpayers, etc. etc.

[Orange1998]

Next is probably "AIR".

[Skybird]

And now, they wanna TAX the sun (or at least the power privately derived from it). Only in Kalifornia...

[mvpel]

I'd have to find out whether that "off-grid system" wording is accurate - would it not apply to a grid-intertied system where the solar power is sold to the rest of the electrical system during the day and purchased from the grid overnight?

[tubebender]

They are only talking about $1.5 million so it sounds like taxing the little guys.

[Centurion2000]

That's why state regulators are looking at imposing between 2 cents and 5 cents per kilowatt hour in fees for anyone with an off-grid system

There's the line in the sand.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Just think. If anybody could charge poeple for not using their products Donohue's show could be a huge financial success.

[nightdriver]

"That's why state regulators are looking at imposing between 2 cents and 5 cents per kilowatt hour in fees for anyone with an off-grid system, which makes sense for big, industrial diesel setups but would cast a dark cloud over solar."

No, I'm sorry, but it doesn't make sense at all.

This means that the state of Calipooia is going to tax all co-generation. Nice move, you idiots!

[DoughtyOne]

Leave it to the leftists. I'm surprised they don't install some meter so they could tax the blood our hearts pump. To the guillotine!

[snopercod]

Democrats claim authority to redistribute solar energy

Amazing, isn't it? The socialists must now allow any route of escape for their victims. I wouldn't be surprised if Davis proposes a "Berlin Wall" around Kalifornia to keep people from fleeing.

[galt-jw]

just move to china and get it over with. a nice quake would solve lots of trouble.

[CPOSharky]

Next is probably "AIR".

Well, somebody should have to pay for the Air Rescources Board. < /sarcasm>

[Dog Gone]

This is simply amazing.