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While this company is doing some pretty shady shit, it's actually not worse than what traditional electric companies do. Talk about corruption and dishonest pr
by socrates1998 8y ago
While this company is doing some pretty shady shit, it's actually not worse than what traditional electric companies do.
Talk about corruption and dishonest practices.
In Florida, FPL, the electric provider for half of Florida, complained for about a decade (from 2004-2014) on how how they needed to keep raising rates so that they could continue to "upgrade the infrastructure" so that they could be prepared for the hurricanes that inevitably would hit the coast.
Some estimates that FPL made a few extra billion dollars on the price increases that went beyond normal inflation.
What do you think happened when south Florida got hit with the next major hurricane in 2014?
Yup. same outages that we saw in 2004.
And the hurricanes weren't even worse.
10 years and billions of dollars in "upgrades" resulted in the same exact problems.
FPL took our money and didn't do anything with it.
AND they have been vehemently against people owning solar panels, even going as far as blocking legislation that would allow people to install them on their own homes without special permission from "FPL approved" companies.
And you can guess how many "approved" companies they would actually approve.
I have yet to see any major utility company operate with any decency, so while this solar panel company is doing some shady shit with their salespeople and leasing terms, it at least didn't scam millions of people for billions of dollars like FPL.
Florida should have the cleanest electricity in the world. Sunshine almost every day, but we don't have it because:
A) We don't price in the environmental impact of non-solar producing coal and natural gas plants, thus keeping solar "more expensive" than fossil fuel electricity.
B) FPL actively blocks the widespread adoption of solar panels on people's homes.
C) Politicians are happy to take money from FPL and other interest groups that don't want to adopt solar.