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Related: About this forumSolar could make your Electricity Bill Zero: But Pols, Utilities are Conspiring Against You
http://www.juancole.com/2014/09/electricity-utilities-conspiring.htmlSolar 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
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abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)1. K&R
mopinko
(73,425 posts)2. florida
of all flippin places!!!
and with all those retirees, too, who could really use the stability.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)3. What we need to do is to push a change in the paradigm -
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.
