Re: Electric Company and Solar

Posted by docmirror on May 13, 2018 at 07:31:03 from (107.213.165.255):

In Reply to: Electric Company and Solar posted by John in La on May 12, 2018 at 05:48:07:

I started life in the farm country of WI. Moved to CA with my family at a young age in the late 50s. It was - paradise. The CA of the 50s, and through the late 70s was a wonderful place to be. Yes - we enacted many regulations, but the population more than doubled between '55 and '75. Air quality in LA 1968 was horrible. You could see what you were breathing quite easily. We had to do something. Too many people, cars, heavy industry, ships. We had to do something.

The change started in the early-70s with the rise of the baby boomers. Haight-Ashbury, free love, Vietnam, reduction in military in San Diego, Oakland, etc. Things sort of stagnated. Money was still coming in, but the population started to expect everything to just fall in their lap. No more hard work, no more trying, no more struggle, just show up - and demand respect. Kind of sad.

I went to UCLA engineering school after the army. I was on an island there. Everyone else outside the eng school was in lock-step. We were pariahs. I could see where it was going, but I stayed. I found a place where I could flourish, outside of the metro places. Stayed another 12 years, until I just couldn't take it anymore.

We left for Texas. I've been here for more than 20 years, and it's been wonderful. Good work, hard work, decent schools(one needs to be selective), honest people, and yes - fewer regulations. But, regulation is coming to TX too. Just at a slower pace.

I might be the classic case of the diorama that was CA. Still own property there, and still making money from them.

As for the solar requirement for NEW houses. Here's the thing - new houses means new people moving in. New people need infrastructure. Roads, water, sewer, schools, playgrounds, and yes, electricity too.

That either means new power stations, transformers, poles, wires, more transformers, etc. Now, we can't get rid of the wires, poles and transformers, but we can distribute the power stations. I'm not sure if residential solar is the right way to go, but it is one way to go. The primary stress on the grid is from 9AM until 6PM. Those are the hours that solar can do the most good for reducing the need for new power stations.

So CA has decided to push the infrastructure costs back to the lowest level, to the new homeowners. It really isn't much different than requiring a developer to put in streets, or add lanes to existing roads when they put in a new housing development. The developer passes those costs along to the new homeowner.

Take a look at N Dallas suburbs, or west Houston suburbs sometime. This is what happens when houses are added without thinking about the infrastructure loads in public planning. They have strains on fresh water, sewage, and worst of all traffic. Almost every secondary road is crushed with traffic from 8-6. It's a universal issue, and CA is trying to minimize it by adding many small power gens to the grid. It can work, but it's a costly way to solve the infrastructure issues with new housing. But - something has to be done.

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