Comments on: Solar Advocates Like Preliminary CPUC Decision to Boost Clean Energy in California http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/16/solar-advocates-like-preliminary-puc-decision-to-boost-clean-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Peter ODonnell http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/16/solar-advocates-like-preliminary-puc-decision-to-boost-clean-energy/#comment-118639 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:13:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37069#comment-118639 Mr. Peevey is the lion-tamer for the shareholder owned utilities in California, short-sighted though they are. If they are paid to perform, paid to embrace their corporate responsibility, perhaps they will remember they work for their own children too.

]]> By: Matt http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/16/solar-advocates-like-preliminary-puc-decision-to-boost-clean-energy/#comment-118530 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37069#comment-118530 Plus net meeting of solar is a money maker for the electric distribution portion of a Utility. Since the extra solar is “on-line” during peak energy time. So the distribution company “trades” low peak power minutes to the PV provider for high peak min when the PV over produces.

Now for the coal plant portion of a Utilitiy company it isn’t so good, since they get to run less during peak.

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