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Investor-owned utility giants, with the support of the labor unions whose workers typically build large-scale solar farms, as well as ratepayer watchdogs and powerful Democratic politicians, claim big changes are needed to address fundamental inequities. They say the current subsidies benefit solar customers, who tend to be wealthier and whiter, at the expense of the poorer communities of color by shifting billions in costs — including the maintenance of transmission systems and projects to prevent power lines from igniting wildfires — to other ratepayers, including those who don’t have solar, can’t afford it or rent their homes.

It's fucking hilarious that the climate change whackos are now head to head with the critical race theory whackos.

> Investor-owned utility giants, with the support of the labor unions whose workers typically build large-scale solar farms, as well as ratepayer watchdogs and powerful Democratic politicians, claim big changes are needed to address fundamental inequities. They say the current subsidies benefit solar customers, who tend to be wealthier and whiter, at the expense of the poorer communities of color by shifting billions in costs — including the maintenance of transmission systems and projects to prevent power lines from igniting wildfires — to other ratepayers, including those who don’t have solar, can’t afford it or rent their homes. It's fucking hilarious that the climate change whackos are now head to head with the critical race theory whackos.

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A reduced federal incentive is not a federal tax. It means they are paying you less to upgrade your own shit.

Yeah, I noticed the article didn't directly mention the tax after I posed it. It's not a reduced federal incentive, it's a cash penalty. $8 per month per kW of installed solar capacity plus a $16 a month flat fee. If I had solar it would cost me $96 a month just for the tax.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/california-proposes-major-reforms-rooftop-solar-policy-2021-12-13/

Under the proposed reforms, Californians with new solar installations would see a discounted rate for power they sell into the grid and a monthly utility charge of $8 per kilowatt to cover the cost of maintaining the grid.

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Yeah that's the government taking their "taste" of what you're making selling electricity to the grid. You'd be selling the electric company hundreds of dollars a month in juice most likely. And any time a citizen makes any money at all, the feds snatch a taste.

But that fee is nowhere in the article you posted. Maybe try better next time picking which article to post? Or maybe you're full of shit.

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Yeah that's the government taking their "taste" of what you're making selling electricity to the grid. You'd be selling the electric company hundreds of dollars a month in juice most likely.

Nope. Before you can install a solar panel system on your roof it has to be approved by the utility. The utility will not approve oversized systems that generate much more than you historically use. Any extra that you do generate is purchased once a year at 1/30th of the cost they charge you for the same power.

But that fee is nowhere in the article you posted. Maybe try better next time picking which article to post? Or maybe you're full of shit.

Here, since you missed it:

Californians with new solar installations would see a discounted rate for power they sell into the grid and a monthly utility charge of $8 per kilowatt