off the idiots that always vote for you, especially if you start to cut into their pocketbooks.

Can you imagine the political power we could have it teapartyers woke up as to who harms them overtly and who doesnt?

and the carbon industry's attempt to kill solar

buy our politicians. Twenty thousand dollars, they sell their soles cheap and our lives even cheaper!

... and I'm a victim of this because I bought a house in Nevada last year, and was planning to install solar panels on it. Looks like they just pulled out the rug from under me. Unless I can afford to buy a battery system and go off the grid completely...

The attack on net metering is yet another 50 state effort by the kleptocracy.

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Much like when Philip Morris saw the handwriting on the wall for its core tobacco business, and invested heavily in food processing companies.

If NV Energy were to buy a solar company, it could then promote its solar company on everybody's bill and in all its other advertising. It's a win-win! But noooooooooo! No no no no no no no no no! </belushi>

Follow the money. Corporate utilities want to make profits. Public utilities are there to provide power at the lowest cost feasible.

Do the math.

More startlingly, the commission made its decision retroactive. That means that the 17,000 Nevada residents who were lured into solar purchases by state-mandated one-time rebates of up to $23,000 suddenly discovered that they were victims of a bait-and-switch. They made the deals assuming that, allowing for inflation, their rates would stay constant over their contracts’ 20- to 30-year lifetimes; instead, they face the prospect of paying much more for electricity than if they had never made the change, even though they’re generating almost all their electricity themselves.

The commission justified its decision by citing grid construction and maintenance costs that rooftop solar users haven’t been charged for, but circumstantial evidence suggests that other factors played a role. All three commission members were appointed or reappointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, whose two election campaigns have received a total of $20,000, the maximum allowed donation under Nevada law, from NV Energy, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility that is a major beneficiary of the rate changes. Two of Mr. Sandoval’s closest informal advisers, Pete Ernaut and Gregory W. Ferraro, are NV Energy lobbyists.




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