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unhappycamper

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Tue Sep 2, 2014, 07:11 AM Sep 2014

Solar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You

http://www.juancole.com/2014/09/electricity-utilities-conspiring.html

Solar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You
By contributors | Sep. 2, 2014

TheLipTV:

“Solar panels are being denied to certain states as utilities companies and politicians are looking out for their own interests in an effort to eliminate the competition. We look why homes are being prevented from supplying stored energy, in this Lip News clip with Lissette Padilla and Mark Sovel.”

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Solar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP
K&R abelenkpe Sep 2014 #1
florida mopinko Sep 2014 #2
What we need to do is to push a change in the paradigm - hedgehog Sep 2014 #3

hedgehog

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3. What we need to do is to push a change in the paradigm -
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 10:09 AM
Sep 2014

utilities need to be thinking in terms of re-distributing and storing power, and providing the grid to do that. They need to abandon a business plan based on large central power plants. It makes sense that people be charged a base fee for the cost of maintaining the grid if they are hooked up to it. That's part of my bill already.

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