Koch Brothers Going After Solar Energy Customers

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Originally Posted by whell

Hate to break this to you, but an op ed piece is not news, and it is not fact. It is opinion. And when reproduced from a paper like the LA Times, its sometimes nothing more than BS.

Ah, if the facts don't fit the ideology, throw out the facts!

Sources on Arizona solar fees:

Arizona Public Service Co. is proposing charging customers who install rooftop solar panels $50 to $100 or more a month to cover the cost of maintaining the power grid.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/co...customers.html

Solar supporters opposed any charge, while the utility wanted fees as high as $100 a month for households with rooftop solar installations—or a major change in the way it treats customers with solar capabilities.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...98572348496740

Arizona Public had requested a fee of $50 a month or more, and the commission’s decision “falls well short of protecting the interests of the 1 million residential customers who do not have solar panels,” Chief Executive Officer Don Brandt said in a statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-1...lar-roofs.html

All bullshit? Even the Wall Street journal one?

The last one raises a big question for me. The problem is supposed to be that rates for everyone are higher because solar households don't pay so much. So where's the part where this unfairness is corrected, by lowering everyone's rates to the extent they are offset by the new fees? I haven't heard one mumblin' word about lowering anyone's rates.