I have mixed feelings about this. SF would take the most lucrative part of the Northern California grid, leaving lots of low-income Californians like the ones who lost their homes in the #CampFire behind.https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1128022060762984448 …
That’s all of PG&Es lines. PG&E covers 70% of the vegetated area in California. Half of it is high fire risk.
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We need to break it down. It is not sustainable to have high power transmission lines going through all the vegetation/kindling. Solar on homes, solar + wind farms with massive battery stores. Distributed and administered regionally. There might even be a local company to help...
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They’ve installed a few dozen houses at this point? I live near one. It was $50K in upfront costs, which is a lot for more rural areas with rural incomes.
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