(Community Matters) Fast Magazine’s article on
Why small-scale, local power – the microgrid – could be the answer to our engergy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they’ve got.
In June 2007, Governor Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 3693, a big efficiency and conservation bill. Though the new law called for net metering to be deployed “as rapidly as possible,” the report explained, utilities took a “hard line” against it at the regulatory level, and ultimately state regulations allow no such thing. “There was the feeling that some of the people who were interested in not having net metering had a lot of say in how net metering was defined,” says Rose, choosing his words quite carefully.
Makes me wonder – shouldn’t environmentalists organize to elect our railroad commissioners. The Texas Railroad Commission regulates these important issues. Currently, their donors are from the industries they regulate.
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