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To understand how we can go renewable, one thing we have to understand is a 40 year old federal law called PURPA, here's your chance: An Overlooked Solution for Competitive and Local Renewable Power
An Overlooked Solution for Competitive and Local Renewable Power
This right here. By law, because solar and wind are cheaper, Ameren has to let us buy it from someone else. They are just fudging the numbers to argue about costs. This seems like law-breaking to me...
"The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which dates to 1978, requires all utilities to buy power from qualifying small-scale clean energy producers when the price roughly matches what a utility pays to generate and deliver its own electricity, or what it would pay a third-party provider. The law provides competitive access to wholesale electricity markets for producers too small to effectively compete with large companies. By doing so, it carves a path for communities to keep energy spending closer to home rather than lining the pockets of utilities’ investors.:
This right here. By law, because solar and wind are cheaper, Ameren has to let us buy it from someone else. They are just fudging the numbers to argue about costs. This seems like law-breaking to me...
"The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which dates to 1978, requires all utilities to buy power from qualifying small-scale clean energy producers when the price roughly matches what a utility pays to generate and deliver its own electricity, or what it would pay a third-party provider. The law provides competitive access to wholesale electricity markets for producers too small to effectively compete with large companies. By doing so, it carves a path for communities to keep energy spending closer to home rather than lining the pockets of utilities’ investors.:
Great introduction to the problem of utilities, and the challenges for going renewable: The simple reason most power utilities suck
The simple reason most power utilities suck
David Roberts, Vox
David Roberts, Vox
"The take-home here is simple: Socially, we need to shift to greener, smarter grids built around aggregated, coordinated DERs, but the regulatory regime under which utilities operate puts them inherently at odds with that shift.Utilities do not have to suck. They have been designed to suck. They can be designed differently."
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