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.:
