Comments on: Three Key Features Of Los Angeles’ New Local Solar Program http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/three-key-features-of-los-angeles-new-local-solar-program/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/three-key-features-of-los-angeles-new-local-solar-program/#comment-166881 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:31:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52942#comment-166881 The table has an erroneous total for Germany. Total installed solar PV was 32.4 GW at the end of 2012. The 53 GW is I think the government’s target for solar PV, and the ultimate cap for the FIT. However the feed-in right is not limited (though at a negotiated not guaranteed price) and few expect the industry to come to a sudden halt when it hits the cap. By then, self-consumption (priced at Germany’s high retail rate) and feed-in of the balance at the wholesale rate will still make a lot of further installation worthwhile.

]]> By: Michael Berndtson http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/three-key-features-of-los-angeles-new-local-solar-program/#comment-166876 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52942#comment-166876 After reading this post and feeling good about electricity democracy, I recieved this article from Crain’s Chicago Business via feed:
“How Comed’s rate design benefits suburbs over the city”
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130615/ISSUE01/306159979

[the article is for subsribers]

In a nutshell, Comed subsidizes suburbanites with large homes and high electricity use over small homes and low energy users by offering lower rates to owners of McMansions. This is purely a move to not upset the “conservative” suburban and exurbanites and to keep nuclear and other always-on generating plants going – and make Exelon (Comed’s parent) a pile of cash. Could you imagine the uproar if all customers had to pay the same rate for usage via smart metering? Oh, wait in the Chicago wealthy suburbs there was already an uproar. My close in suburb (with small 1200 square foot homes, two flats and apartments) was chosen as a pilot program for smart meters and real time usage tracking. Of course the wealthy suburbs to the west and north of Chicago fought the expansion of Comed’s plans – I’m assuming for this exact reason.

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