On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But, if the SRP proposal goes through, it'll either be >> a fixed $50 or $67 per month.. > > That is preposterous and only shows how the greed of well funded oil money > campaigns can convince people against their better interest. Yes, it's preposterous. And, yes, I smell the hand of the Koch Brothers in this. But that doesn't make it any less real. >> Now re-run your calculations with those numbers >> and see if they still make the same kind of "no-brainer" sense. > > No, join the intelligent fight against such greed and convince your law > makers to ignore this greedy grab by entrenched fossil burning interests. What, the same lawmakers whose campaigns are funded by the Koch Brothers? > I do agree that there is a fixed cost I should have to pay for using the > grid for storage. But this has nothing whatsoever to do with "fair." It has everything to do with maximizing corporate profits. Indeed, all the marketing materials from SRP say that is is to _restore_ fairness, because us dirty solar hippies aren't paying our fair share to maintain the grid. > Even > in conservative Arizona, they have added $5 a month to solar customers. > Big deal. That was some months ago with APS. This is right now with SRP. APS initially proposed the same basic thing SRP is proposing, but the Arizona Corporation Commission shot down APS's proposal and held them to the $5 / month you cite. SRP is a quasi-governmental self-regulating entity, and the Corporation Commission has no oversight. Nor does anybody else, pretty much. Again, yes. This is preposterous. But I'm not going to sit here doing nothing in stunned disbelief that "They can't possibly do that!" because, in fact, it's very likely that they actually will do it -- and get away with doing it, too. b& _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
