• BaldProphet@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    but if your power is cut due to high winds and dry weather, known as a PSPS, or the power lines are downed by an earthquake, local solar and power storage helps people keep their homes and lives running

    The majority of people with solar panels on their houses don’t have power storage and also have their power turned off during PSPS and other outages.

    Put another way, we should be expanding residential solar and local power storage, and make it more affordable than ever so the people most at risk due to climate change, people too poor to escape it, are provided local power generation from that giant fusion reactor in the sky.

    I’d like to see solar panels and installation provided entirely free of charge to low-income homeowners and landlords of low-income tenants, but with a $68 billion budget deficit, I don’t see that happening in California any time soon.