{"id":1064,"date":"2012-02-27T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-peddling-old-disinformation-about-solar-power.html"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:46:55","slug":"georgia-power-peddling-old-disinformation-about-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-peddling-old-disinformation-about-solar-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Power peddling old disinformation about solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the same day as SB 401
\nrevived as SB 459<\/a> gets a hearing in a better committee,
\n
\n<\/a>
\nGeorgia Power trots out the same old tired disinformation it’s been peddling
\nfor years.
\nAs if we didn’t already know that almost all solar installations in Georgia
\nare installed by certified solar installers.
\nOr that pretty much every inverter these days comes with built-in
\nautomatic cutoff if the grid goes down to which installers add
\nair-gap cutoff knife switches plus breakers.
\nAnd as if Georgia Power didn’t know
\n
\nit and EMCs could charge a percentage on electricity arbitraged
\nacross their networks,<\/a>
\nwhich gapower could use to finance any needed grid improvements, while
\nretaining a hefty profit for doing not much of anything else.
\nMeanwhile, those of us who chose to participate in solar electricity arbitrage
\nwould get lower rates for customers.
\nWe do know all that,
\nbut maybe your state senator doesn’t, so maybe you should call your
\nsenator today and tell them you want to be able to buy and sell solar
\npower without having to get it from the utility monopoly.<\/p>\n

\nGreg Roberts, Vice President of Pricing and Planning for Georgia Power
\nin Atlanta, wrote for the Savannah Morning News today,
\n
\nThe solar sleight of hand<\/a>.
\nI’ll only quote part of his concluding paragraph.<\/p>\n

\nGeorgia Power is involved in many efforts to expand the use solar energy\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Usually dragged along behind reluctantly,<\/p>\n


\nas in when it took Georgia Power
\na month or more to connect an installation in Valdosta after the solar
\npanels and inverters were installed in less than a week.<\/p>\n

\nand currently has over 55 megawatts of solar power in its portfolio
\nof generating sources to serve all customers without significant rate
\nimpacts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mostly because
\n
\nthe PSC forced gapower to do that,<\/a> overriding Georgia Power’s
\nlobbying for once.<\/p>\n

\nOr maybe instead that was a trade for
\n
\nthe PSC letting Georgia Power charge Construction Work in Progress for
\nthe two nukes its parent company The Southern Company is building<\/a>,
\nand for
\n
\nGeorgia Power being able to pass all nuke cost overruns on to customers.<\/a>
\nDoes that sound like an even trade to you?<\/p>\n

\nWhat do you want to do?
\nWhat gapower recommends:<\/p>\n

\nWe should proceed with caution, take the time to evaluate all the pros
\nand cons thoroughly….\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOr maybe we should look at what 46 other states have already done,
\npick what works, and get on with it.
\nThat plus build on what our home-grown inventors and entrepeneurs
\n
\nsuch as Drs. Smith and Godbey<\/a> are already doing.<\/p>\n

\nOh, my: Greg Roberts is responsible for
\n
\nMarket Planning and Resource Policy and Planning<\/a>.
\nWell, that’s too bad.
\nGeorgia Power could be generating a lot of solar energy itself
\nand selling it to more northerly states.
\nOr profiting from collecting percentages on distributed generation
\nwithout even having to finance or install the generating capacity.
\nCome on up to the 21st<\/sup><\/small> century, Georgia Power!<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n

\nPS: No snails were harmed in the making of this post.
\nAnd apologies to their entire genus for the comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the same day as SB 401 revived as SB 459 gets a hearing in a better committee, Georgia Power trots out the same old tired disinformation it’s been peddling for years. As if we didn’t already know that almost all solar installations in Georgia are installed by certified solar installers. Or that pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,14,8,18,23,24],"tags":[2061,8701,8708,1558,2890,7,8713,2888,2987,8714,108,6],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cwip","category-economy","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-electricity","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-greg-roberts","tag-lower-rates-for-customers","tag-lowndes-county","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sidney-smith","tag-snail","tag-solar","tag-southern-company","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}