Far Right Group ALEC Pressing Massive Taxes On Those That Install Solar Panels

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Good ol' right wing fascism at it again,..

An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as “freeriders” – in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.

Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama’s main channel for climate action.

Details of Alec’s strategy to block clean energy development at every stage – from the individual rooftop to the White House – are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week.

About 800 state legislators and business leaders are due to attend the three-day event, which begins on Wednesday with appearances by the Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson and the Republican budget guru and fellow Wisconsinite Paul Ryan.

Conservative group ALEC pushes stealth tax on homeowners who install solar panels | The Raw Story

 

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Eick dismissed the suggestion that individuals who buy and install home-based solar panels had made such investments. “How are they going to get that electricity from their solar panel to somebody else’s house?” he said. “They should be paying to distribute the surplus electricity.”

Another nail in the coffin that shows republicans aren't any different than Democrats. They still want to meddle around in affairs that belong to private citizens and industry. Pay to feed electricity into the grid? Are they on fuckin' drugs? OK, so, no one bothers to feedback then. Why would someone PAY to GIVE energy to a company?

 

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At the same time, I agree with ALEC regarding clean energy mandates.

 

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Monopoly protection is a core conservative value. They like to talk about competition being good but it's just bullshit. It would be good to hear someone try to justify keeping power generation in the hands of the local power monopoly and using the law to do it.

 

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Monopoly protection is a core conservative value. They like to talk about competition being good but it's just bullshit. It would be good to hear someone try to justify keeping power generation in the hands of the local power monopoly and using the law to do it.

it's also a democrat core value. The only difference is that conservatives prefer a nice public/private parlay, while Democrats simply prefer government monopoly on everything.

 

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Eick dismissed the suggestion that individuals who buy and install home-based solar panels had made such investments. “How are they going to get that electricity from their solar panel to somebody else’s house?” he said. “They should be paying to distribute the surplus electricity.”

Another nail in the coffin that shows republicans aren't any different than Democrats. They still want to meddle around in affairs that belong to private citizens and industry. Pay to feed electricity into the grid? Are they on fuckin' drugs? OK, so, no one bothers to feedback then. Why would someone PAY to GIVE energy to a company?

The price of solar will continue to decline, and the price of batteries continues to decline. In fact, maybe by factors of magnitudes if the work on some of the grid scale batteries turns out to be scalable. What that means is that if the utilities, through the efforts of groups like ALEC, get this through, a great many people will go completely off grid. That will be a double loss to the utilities, as most of the grid parrellel power would have been during the high use period in the daytime, and most of the grid use would be during the slack night hours. The utilities in most areas charge retail, and pay wholesale prices for the residential home power. Another point is that as the use of EV's increases, if the homeowners are cut off by the utilities, they will store their own juice in the home storage batteries and charge their vehicles from that, rather than the grid, and the utilities lose a lucrative market.

Plus, since ALEC is a 'Conservative' organization, the political group associated with them will not be popular with a great many of these homeowners.