California’s Climate Contradictions

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• New evidence that green policies punish the poor and subsidize the rich.

"The contradictions of green energy policies are becoming more obvious in the real world, and now comes more evidence in a new study of California’s electricity rates.

 The policies even contradict green climate goals.

...Utilities also need backup power when it’s cloudy, which adds costs. 

Yet the state sometimes has to pay Arizona to take its excess solar power to avoid overloading the grid.

And here’s the kicker: 

Folks with solar panels get paid for surplus power they don’t use—sometimes at two to three times the rate of wholesale power. 

So California pays the well-to-do to generate solar power it doesn’t need and then pays Arizona to take it...Read all.