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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
PG&E: More Lies, More Deceit
First PG&E said their shareholders would foot the bill to install 590 solar panels at Giants Park.
(OK. I know. The ballpark is supposed to be called AT&T Park. Not long before that it was SBC Park and not long before that it was PacBell Park. I've had enough. I'm calling it Giants Park and I don't give a damn what anybody says.)
Installing 590 solar panels at Giants Park is a great idea. It will make that outstanding baseball park a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly green park ... and that's terrific. It is an impressive project and good for everybody.
Electricity generated by the solar panels would go into the PG&E grid system and be available for sale to PG&E customers. PG&E announced their shareholders would foot the bill. Great. It's a wonderful contribution to the City and to our environment. They are to be congratulated for being responsible corporate citizens.
But ... WAIT!
All that has changed!
"Yesterday we said the project was going to be shareholder-funded but that was inaccurate," said PG&E spokesman Keely Wachs. "In the interest of focusing on what's important, which is solar energy and protecting California's environment, we wanted to correct that." Double-speak from PG&E Spinmeister Wachs.
Now PG&E has decided the best people to pay for the solar panels are ... us ... their customers. So, they are going to bill us for the total cost of installation. It will be added to our energy bills.
Leave it PG&E to take a great idea that would have produced megawatts of goodwill for them, and then turn it into a nightmare that tramples their name even deeper into the muck.
Stupid.
2 comments:
Anonymous said...
Giant Stadium Goes Solar, But What About the Rest of Us?
It’s great that the Giants’ stadium is going solar today. But let’s not loose sight of the fact that this 123 kilowatts of solar is 0.03% of the 360 megawatts that Community Choice will achieve. This installation - paid by PG$E ratepayers - will power 40 houses, while Community Choice policy will power 50% of the entire city of San Francisco.
Just as City Hall prepares a final vote to implement Community Choice Aggregation – a policy that will break PG$E’s monopoly and attain 50% of the city’s energy from local renewable energy – Mayor Gavin Newsom is launching several high-profile projects with PG$E. The projects are all environmental in name, and are all token in impact. We, the Green Guerrillas Against Greenwash, are concerned that the Mayor may be attempting to buffer his environmental credentials with these high-profile partnerships and then fail to prioritize the implementation of the policy that will actually have a substantive impact on preventing climate change.
This is just one example of the Mayor & PG$E having a recent and meaningless hook-up. More info at: www.LetsGreenWashThisCity.org
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:10:00 PM PDT
Anonymous said...
I undertsnad the Public Utilities Commission must give their approval to the project. It is at that level we should make a stand and demand that the PUC require PG&E to absorb the cost and NOT pass it along to the rest of us.
2 comments:
Giant Stadium Goes Solar, But What About the Rest of Us?
It’s great that the Giants’ stadium is going solar today. But let’s not loose sight of the fact that this 123 kilowatts of solar is 0.03% of the 360 megawatts that Community Choice will achieve. This installation - paid by PG$E ratepayers - will power 40 houses, while Community Choice policy will power 50% of the entire city of San Francisco.
Just as City Hall prepares a final vote to implement Community Choice Aggregation – a policy that will break PG$E’s monopoly and attain 50% of the city’s energy from local renewable energy – Mayor Gavin Newsom is launching several high-profile projects with PG$E. The projects are all environmental in name, and are all token in impact. We, the Green Guerrillas Against Greenwash, are concerned that the Mayor may be attempting to buffer his environmental credentials with these high-profile partnerships and then fail to prioritize the implementation of the policy that will actually have a substantive impact on preventing climate change.
This is just one example of the Mayor & PG$E having a recent and meaningless hook-up. More info at: www.LetsGreenWashThisCity.org
I undertsnad the Public Utilities Commission must give their approval to the project. It is at that level we should make a stand and demand that the PUC require PG&E to absorb the cost and NOT pass it along to the rest of us.
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