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Drop the sensationalist BS headline please. "Individual net metering" is explicitly mentioned. Net metering = individual solar panels owned by property owners.
by lightedman 10y ago
Drop the sensationalist BS headline please. "Individual net metering" is explicitly mentioned. Net metering = individual solar panels owned by property owners. AKA The utility can't build solar but they can use the solar from any household that connects their own solar to the grid with net-metering tie-ins.
This means that renewables of some sort are in fact allowed. All it took was reading to the 9th tiny paragraph.
- mwfunk 10y agoWell sure, it would be much harder, and even more anti-free market to ban private individuals from setting up their own renewable energy sources on their own property. That would be telling people what they can or can't do on private property, which is a whole other legal ball of wax than telling regulated utilities what they can or can't do. But utilities would be forbidden from maintaining solar and wind farms to provide energy to their customers. Your interpretation is correct, but it doesn't change any of the things that are bad or anti-free-market about this. I can see how someone might misinterpret the headline, but that requires an almost intentional misreading, regarding a fine point that doesn't impact anything that people are concerned about here.