Political Correctness Trumps Energy Policy

Frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this article from POWER Magazine called Political Correctness Trumps Energy Policy, pointing out the lack of fairness and common sense in the way the city of San Francisco provides its citizens electrical power.

Thanks for this, Tim.  There is no doubt in my mind that the regulation of our power utilities is the bogeyman behind a great number of our energy woes. It’s extremely complicated, especially in California, and it doesn’t provide incentive for doing the right thing, i.e., encouraging efficiency and load shifting on the part of the customer, and integrating renewables, storage, and smart-grid on the part of the utility.

It would be terrific to rethink this from the ground up, to make the whole system easy, fair, understandable, uniform, and motivating for everyone to reduce the consumption of electricity from the dirtiest sources.  Having said that, I see too many lawyers and too much cross-breeding between the industry and its regulators.