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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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That's how government works. This will push rich white people to drop from the grid altogether. Then they'll pass a law requiring all homes to be attached to the grid regardless of whether you use it.

What I would like to see is a massive movement of people changing their inverters to starve the grid. In other words, shunt any extra power straight into the ground. Residential solar is 11% of California's power right now. Imagine if even 5% of the grid just blinked off.

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Cries in NorCal. Fuck Newsom

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That's how government works. This will push rich white people to drop from the grid altogether. Then they'll pass a law requiring all homes to be attached to the grid regardless of whether you use it.

Commiefornia already requires everyone with solar to be connected to the grid, and prevents their solar installations from working if the grid is down.

When they shut off power to ~1m people a few years ago (probably did again, I just don't keep up because fuck Commiefornia) all the people affected who had solar were without power due to this regulation. Kek.