With Californians paying 21cents/kwh off-peak and 54 cents/kwh peak (4-9pm) no wonder they want to ban natural gas services to homes and buildings, forcing you to use their expensive electricity for heat & hot water. And prevent grid defection.
At those prices it would be cheaper to run a liquid cooled CHP NG generator/batteries/solar PV with heat and hot water cogeneration. With the CHP generator you don't need big batteries like you need for an off-grid solar. 10kwh would be enough not 30kwh as you need to replace an avg US home electricity supply with solar PV. And a 3kw solar array instead of a 10kw. Curious why NG CHP generators optimized for battery charging are not readily available and mass produced at the cost of a home gas furnace. Something stinks there. Or even a natural gas fuel cell, you would only need ~1.5kwe size. Larger buildings can use Bloom box NG CHP fuel cells. Or are they banned in California already.
So end-of-story. They can't compete in a free market so their answer is to ban the competition. Socialism or Monopoly Capitalism? Likely a combo of both, called "Stakeholders", the New World Order.
I started working on energy efficiency with Mike Peevey and Art Rosenfeld in CA 2002. One party government (yes, including Govinator) will become dysfunctional in short order. Smart people and dumbed-down government. Thanks for your flow of information, GLF.
With Californians paying 21cents/kwh off-peak and 54 cents/kwh peak (4-9pm) no wonder they want to ban natural gas services to homes and buildings, forcing you to use their expensive electricity for heat & hot water. And prevent grid defection.
At those prices it would be cheaper to run a liquid cooled CHP NG generator/batteries/solar PV with heat and hot water cogeneration. With the CHP generator you don't need big batteries like you need for an off-grid solar. 10kwh would be enough not 30kwh as you need to replace an avg US home electricity supply with solar PV. And a 3kw solar array instead of a 10kw. Curious why NG CHP generators optimized for battery charging are not readily available and mass produced at the cost of a home gas furnace. Something stinks there. Or even a natural gas fuel cell, you would only need ~1.5kwe size. Larger buildings can use Bloom box NG CHP fuel cells. Or are they banned in California already.
So end-of-story. They can't compete in a free market so their answer is to ban the competition. Socialism or Monopoly Capitalism? Likely a combo of both, called "Stakeholders", the New World Order.
It’s silly to think the government can change the weather. The politicians are out of their minds. San Diego is peak Clown World.
I started working on energy efficiency with Mike Peevey and Art Rosenfeld in CA 2002. One party government (yes, including Govinator) will become dysfunctional in short order. Smart people and dumbed-down government. Thanks for your flow of information, GLF.
LOL