Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers

[Gravitytr1]

Maybe if California actually invested in its own power infrastructure they wouldn't be relying on other states for power.

The governor of California is a corrupt extremist spawn of nepotism. The government board that regulates electricity in the state is filled with his friends and lobbyists and have been blatantly making anti citizen policies for years now. If you just Google the BILLIONS of profits companies like PGE and SCE have been raking in yearly, you'd wonder why you haven't heard about this on the news.

 

[Endymio]

I thought the whole point of utilities is to ensure the right of every human to affordable high quality electricity.

How is this legal?

The "whole point" of a utility is no different than any other business -- to make a profit by selling a product. The point of a utility regulator is to ensure utilities don't overcharge customers, not to mandate they sell at a loss.

The customers in question are served not by the Nevada company that made this decision, but by Liberty Utilities, which -- being in lackwitted environmentalist-run California -- believed they could forever survive by importing energy from elsewhere, rather than producing their own. Now the chickens have come home to roost.

 

[Hecate91]

I thought the whole point of utilities is to ensure the right of every human to affordable high quality electricity.

How is this legal?

Anything seems to be legal with the Trump administration when enough money changes hands.

 

[Endymio]

Anything seems to be legal with the Trump administration when enough money changes hands.

Since this was a decision made and approved 15 years ago by a Blue-state regulatory board, I realize your statement translates from lib-speak to plain English as: "blah blah I don't like Trump."

Still I must point out it was the Biden family that received $22M from Chinese sources, all of from offshore shell accounts in fake names ... along with similar payments from Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and even Russia. All documented by thousands of emails, text messages, bank records, wire transfer receipts, and the sworn testimony of a half-dozen FBI and IRS whistle-blowers:

Biden Family Investigation - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

oversight.house.gov

 

[Gravitytr1]

The "whole point" of a utility is no different than any other business -- to make a profit by selling a product. The point of a utility regulator is to ensure utilities don't overcharge customers, not to mandate they sell at a loss.

The customers in question are served not by the Nevada company that made this decision, but by Liberty Utilities, which -- being in lackwitted environmentalist-run California -- believed they could forever survive by importing energy from elsewhere, rather than producing their own. Now the chickens have come home to roost.

As usual, you're just regurgitating chatgpt nonsense.

 

[ActualViking]

I'll stick with America, given the Australian government's "protection" of consumers is raping them badly:

Average Electricity Cost By Nation
Australia: 33.2 cents kW-hr
USA: 17.9 cents kW-hr

And if we just removed the Neo-socialist bastions of CA, MA and HI from the calculation, it would drop to just 14.8 cents.

14.8 cents isn't especially cheap here in the land of renewable energy. It's about the average from the last 24 hours and the rate changes hour by hour, when the sun shines and there is wind as well the prices can get very close to 1 cent.

 

[ActualViking]

Since this was a decision made and approved 15 years ago by a Blue-state regulatory board, I realize your statement translates from lib-speak to plain English as: "blah blah I don't like Trump."

Still I must point out it was the Biden family that received $22M from Chinese sources, all of from offshore shell accounts in fake names ... along with similar payments from Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and even Russia. All documented by thousands of emails, text messages, bank records, wire transfer receipts, and the sworn testimony of a half-dozen FBI and IRS whistle-blowers:

Biden Family Investigation - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

oversight.house.gov

If Biden and son is so guilty then why is there no convictions. But since you bring up corruption, the real subject to talk about is Donald, his family and essentially most of his government. Donald has been selling pardons, exceptions for export of AI chips... and the service of the US military going to war with Iran.

More relevant here is though that Donald has taken money for the fossil fuel industry and blocked wind farms, in fact he has even paid energy companies for not constructing wind farms.

 

[Endymio]

If Biden and son is so guilty then why is there no convictions.

Glad you asked! Because Biden pardoned six of his family members for any and all crimes, even the unprecedented step of as-yet uncharged crimes. He also becomes the first President in US history to pardon his own family members.

Donald has been selling pardons

Where would the fascist Left be without their lies and disinformation, eh? The only President known to have sold a pardon was Bill Clinton's of Marc Rich, made immediately after Rich's wife cut the Clinton's a $500K check.

 

[Aolish]

I'm not an expert in politics, I don't even know how to vote, thus never did lol, but hasn't socialism resulted in 100 million people dying and has one of the WORST track records of implementation in the world? Another words, nearly every place that has tried to enact socialism has not only failed but tens of millions of people died. I'm always hearing from people that we should never repeat history, but yet so many want a socialist society even though it's had a miserable past, I feel like so many people only look at the surface level of socialism (which is all the free stuff lol), and not looking deeper into the issues that socialism has had in the past. Again, I'm not good in politics and I do understand there are a lot of nuances when it comes to every topic in politics, so I'm just wanting to hear people's other side of the story when it comes to socialism.

 

[Endymio]

This is interesting:

"CodePink, a far-left, pro-China, pro-communism nonprofit activist group, began an attack campaign against a proposed Utah data center project...."

CodePink is funded by Neville Roy Singham, who is married to CodePink founder Jodie Evans ... Singham is a US expat living in Singapore who heavily promotes CCP party ideology and progaganda. A recent report by the Bitcoin Policy Institute found that CCP-linked entities are heavily funding anti-AI and anti-data center efforts in the US.

... hasn't socialism resulted in 100 million people dying and has one of the WORST track records of implementation in the world? Another words, nearly every place that has tried to enact socialism has not only failed but tens of millions of people died. I'm always hearing from people that we should never repeat history, but yet so many want a socialist society even though it's had a miserable past

Today's socialists continue to delude themselves with the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy. Whether its the Marxist Socialism of the USSR, the People's Socialism of CCP China, or the National Socialism of Nazi Germany, they simply repeat, "that wasn't true socialism ... give us total power and we'll do it right this time!"

 

[Aolish]

This is interesting:

"CodePink, a far-left, pro-China, pro-communism nonprofit activist group, began an attack campaign against a proposed Utah data center project...."

CodePink is funded by Neville Roy Singham, who is married to CodePink founder Jodie Evans ... Singham is a US expat living in Singapore who heavily promotes CCP party ideology and progaganda. A recent report by the Bitcoin Policy Institute found that CCP-linked entities are heavily funding anti-AI and anti-data center efforts in the US.


Today's socialists continue to delude themselves with the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy. Whether its the Marxist Socialism of the USSR, the People's Socialism of CCP China, or the National Socialism of Nazi Germany, they simply repeat, "that wasn't true socialism ... give us total power and we'll do it right this time!"

I heard something similar on YouTube, there was a video where an interviewer brought up socialisms miserable past and the socialist said, were going to be different. lol