Can you guess who will be hurt by this idea, as being pushed mostly by White Liberals?
(USA Today) How much Californians pay for electricity could soon depend on when they use it — and some could see their summer bills go up substantially.
The California Public Utilities Commission could soon ask Southern California Edison and other utility companies to start designing “time-of-use” residential electricity rates, to take effect in 2019. The rates would make electricity more expensive when demand is high, and less expensive when demand is low.
Some ratepayer advocates and environmental groups support time-varying rates, which they say would help reduce dependence on climate-altering fossil fuels. But at least one consumer watchdog group is worried the rates would have unintended consequences. For instance, the new rates could make electricity much more expensive during the summer, hitting desert residents hard during the many months of air conditioning season.
It will also hit lower and middle class income folks much harder than all the Rich White Liberals in California. Let’s not forget, those who are involved with environmentalism/climate change, particularly the leaders, tend to be rich and white. Funny thing is, the very people who will be hurt the most, poorer minorities, are the ones calling the most for Government to Do Something, to make it a top priority. The RWLs have convinced poor minorities that raising the cost of living is necessary.
As for “unintended consequences”, increasing the cost of energy, which will increase the cost of living, is anything by “unintended”. It should be pointed out that peak demand cost is nothing new; quite a few power companies practice it. What is different here the rate demands, and the why
Many environmental groups see time-varying rates as a smart way to limit fossil fuel-driven climate change.
While the rates wouldn’t be designed to reduce overall energy consumption, they would ideally limit the need for expensive, gas-fired “peaker” plants. Those plants are generally inefficient, spewing more air pollutants and planet-warming greenhouse gases than most energy sources.
They want to use the force of Government to change people’s behavior. Meanwhile, these same Cult Of Climastrology members refuse to give up their own fossil fuels usage. Weird, right?
Here’s the “typical demand profile of an individual household monitored every two 2 minutes” (from here)
And “total California load profile for a hot day in 1999”
Hooray, everyone can do their laundry in the middle of the night! Of course, let’s consider that so many uber-Democrat voters in California are CoC members, and have been calling for all sorts of “climate change” rules, regulations, laws, and initiatives. Well, here they go. They’re getting their wish. It will be amusing when they complain about their cost of living escalating precipitously. Because what they really want is all the penalties and cost increases and bad stuff to be forced on Other People. Now they’ll have the opportunity to be forced to practice what they preach.
It might help if California would actually build new power plants. A few nuclear plants would do wonders. Heck, if the enviroweenies would stop blocking solar farms, even solar could help during peak time.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Why, it all makes perfect sense! The Pyrite State will, for political reasons, artificially inflate the costs of electricity — meaning: add a regulatory cost, passed on to consumers, which has nothing at all to do with the costs of generating and delivering power to consumers — and then, upon (belatedly) discovering that women, minorities and the poor are hardest hit by the increased costs, create a program to increase taxes on the top producers in order to subsidize the electricity bills of the women, minorities and poor who were, unexpectedly! hard hit by the increase in costs. Thus, women, minorities and the poor will have to keep voting Democratic, to keep the program which subsidizes their electric bills.
A state full of Hispanics and Blacks. Being forced to pay higher electricity bills because of political reasons in a state owned and operated by democrats.
But blame those Cons for the Hispanics and Blacks not being on board the AGW bandwagon.
the masses must understand the white libs and their minority servants are the only ones who can lead the po, ignorant , illegal aliens and the middle class out of the grip of sanity … yup gotta have the white libs to save the world