California’s electricity costs and grid instability are a crisis. Every credible study concludes that allowing people with rooftop solar to dispatch power to the grid on demand will bring down electricity prices and prevent dangerous blackouts. But…

Gov #Newsome is in the pocket of the investor-owned utilities, whose profits are threatened by #solar and #battery storage. So to bolster his campaign funding he just vetoed virtual power plant bills that passed almost unopposed in the legislature.