My payback on solar panels is never given the rest of the system. I don’t use enough power - even with an extensive reptile collection.
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You need to use about 300 kWh per month min. 1000kwh per month and above usage is when solar pays off best. So if your electricity bill is over $300/m, solar is a sure bet. At $100/m not worth it,
Sounds about right. I did hit 400 kWh one month when the low here was 7 F. The average is well below 300 though. Back in La Honda I never even hit 200 but then I didn’t need AC and did my heating with wood and propane. And here, with all the taxes and fees included, I pay 0.16 for each of those kWh.
Where does all the PGE money go? The power rates are 3x other states. The net profit is less than 10% of revenue. Despite the popular narrative of a greedy company putting profits first, the math doesn’t check out. The money clearly isn’t going to infrastructure upgrades.
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The money goes to high salaries and pensions
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CA mandates lots of renewables. There’s your cost.
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I read somewhere that the governor had signed a new law that basically requires PG&E to shut off the power when there is a high wind alert. Which is very expensive for PG&E to begin with: no electric consumption, and the – by the same law – required inspections before turning back on.
Now the same governor asks them for a give-away, $100/account.
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Governor goes with the direction of the wind.
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Can the governor even do that??? At what point does he just force every taxpayer to write a $100 check to the nearest “Homeless” person.
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The governor is a wind bag
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More than “a one time check of” $100. Maybe $100/week. In the property taxes.
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If I donate my wine to the nearest homeless wino will Governor Windbag give me a tax credit?
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”California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country—has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster.
On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state—specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area—has been hit with a mass blackout.”
Lol.
“ For years, the utility skimped on safety upgrades and repairs while pumping billions into green energy and electric-car subsidies to please its overlords in Sacramento. Credit Suisse has estimated that long-term contracts with developers of renewables cost the utility $2.2 billion annually more than current market power rates.”
Oops.
It’s ok. We love to pay more for less or none.
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