Gladwyn d’SouzaLiccardo- What prevents PG&E from keeping us safe and from doing so affordably? Answer- Newsom, Papan, Low, Becker, etc. Cortese may challenge the #CaCPUC but the rest of the contingent is complicit especially in the utility’s diabolic dependence on fossil fuels.
Undermining #CommunitySolar: #ForProfit #Monopolies waiting for huge #payday from their #CitizensUnited purchased #CaCPUC to take away #Resilience from the #ParadiseBurned #PSPS.
#MisManagement: #CaCPUC, to maintain PG&E's #monopoly, does not allow cities to form renewable #microgrids, and taxes rooftop solar with batteries. CA now has 2GW of home diesel generators because of the #PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutdowns) "linked to an uptick in #CarbonMonoxide #poisonings… likely because people were running generators in enclosed spaces during #PowerOutages." https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Deaths-of-2-men-in-Sea-Ranch-possibly-linked-to-17714030.php
#GreenConsumption: Only statewide regulatory barrier to #ElectricCars is the monopoly preserving #CaCPUC! Unlike #bikes, scooters and other #micromobility that solves multiple problems simultaneously such as congestion, #DirtyAir, crashes, Paris, and #ActiveMobility for health, but are restricted by local jurisdictions from displacing driving to reduce #emissions.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/waymo-seeks-permit-sell-self-driving-car-rides-san-francisco-2022-12-13/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/waymo-seeks-permit-sell-self-driving-car-rides-san-francisco-2022-12-13/
Waymo seeks permit to sell self-driving car rides in San Francisco
Alphabet Inc's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O" target="_blank">(GOOGL.O)</a> Waymo has applied for the final permit it needs in California before it can sell fully autonomous rides, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
#CascadingCrisis: #CaCPUC’s vote Dec 15 impacts both local #Resilience (#batteries plus #CommunitySolar- which the ISO’s opposed this year) needs as the #ISOs burn down the state with their distant transmission and #PSPS the power; and CA’s #emissions since ~40% of electricity is fossil fuels based in centralized water intensive generation- in the midst of a drought.
#CaCPUC the monopoly enablers: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/tool-surviving-extreme-weather-mircogrids-distributed-power-batteries/ "The proven examples of #SolarResilience has lessons for improvement and adjustment. Use of decentralized, localized #microgrids and power systems can aid entire communities even when a state or city’s central grid fails. (Don’t forget: batteries, batteries, batteries).” Save #RoofTopSolar CA
