Reply to Mayor Bowser's Threat to Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs)

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I work in the industry. These are all gimmicks. Honestly, the idea of clean energy in DC only makes people feel good. It has no big effect on anything, but it gives you a talking point.

I find the idea of switch from gas to electricity to be ludicrous. How do you think electricity is made? We don't have enough land for utility scale renewable energy that would have a real impact. [/quote]

What part of the industry to you work in, the coal or petroleum part? Electricity can be produced from renewable sources. While covering all of DC's needs may not be immediately possible, solar can make a significant impact. Solar is covering over 90% of my home's needs, including charging an electric car. If this experience were repeated all over the city, it would have a very important and noticeable difference.

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DP. You *highly subsidized* solar panels cover a *portion* of your home’s during the day time. It is not charging your car in the middle of the night. The other big subsidy for your panels — on top of the SRECS — is that you’re not charged the true cost to the system of keeping a gas or coal plant on standby during the day so it can provide electricity to you at night or when your panels otherwise go off line. Customers who take from the system are cheaper to serve per kWh. Nor do the “emissions savings” usually take into account the operation of those plants during the day on standby or the ramping them up and down, which is much less efficient than producing electricity at a steady state. [/quote]

Have you heard of batteries?[/quote]

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