Arizona SRP who are penalizing people for having Solar Power should instead being giving incentives to encourage everyone to have solar in a state with sunshine over 330 days a year.
I think 100% rebate for installation of solar for home owners would turn Arizona into a state that can its excess gigawatts of power to the rest of the country.
Billions could be made and cost to manufacturing would allow reversed outsourcing from China and India. Imagine modern solar panels were on the roof of all businesses, homes, with commericial solar concentrators in the hot Arizona desert on federal land.
There would make super cheap power which would bring business's to the state due to lowest cost of energy anywhere in the country. The cost of running a business is in large power from the energy requirements to manufacture a product. If we had extremely low cost power and water to run business's in Arizona there would be a flocking of companies to the state.
De-Salinaton plants should be build in the areas of the Gulf of California with land between the border of Arizona and the Gulf bought or leased for use to build De-Salination plants to pump fresh water from one end of Arizona to the other, from Yuma, Arizona to the Gulf by working with Mexico to build an aquaduct to transport water to the Arizona border for processing.
The blue lines indicate pipelines from the De-Salination plants to various parts of Arizona
All powered by Solar power to eliminate the energy costs for running a 2700 Mw plant
At a grand ceremony on April 28, King Abdullah pushed the buttons to allow the plant to begin operating. The plant, which cost 16 billion Saudi Ryals (US$ 3.8 billion) is expected to create 800,000 cubic meters of water for cities in the Eastern Province, as well as generate 2,750 megawatts of electricity. - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/05/saudi-arabia-desalination/#sthash.m95m4Gb4.dpuf
We are buying oil from a country that is using all the profits from their sales to become a water and energy independent country. I think it is time we compete with them as Americans.
The response from SRP is:
This new E-27 Customer Generation Price Plan does not have a fixed $50 fee. We have restructured the price for new rooftop solar customers to be in line with what non-solar customers pay for the same services. Under the old pricing structure, solar customers did not pay for the full amount of the fixed costs that SRP incurred to serve them. Those costs were being collected by non-solar customers. The new rate structure corrects this by measuring energy and demand (grid costs) separately. Customers on the E-27 plan pay for what they use in a way that represents the underlying economic costs of the two distinct products SRP provides: energy and demand. More importantly, E-27 customers have an opportunity to reduce their bills by taking steps to lessen their demand during peak times.
SRP is a non-profit, community-based utility that continues to support solar energy. We have made significant investments in community-scale solar installations here in Arizona. SRP has also entered a contract to purchase output from a 45-megawatt solar plant to be constructed in the East Valley this year. SRP's goal is to acquire solar at the best possible price to benefit all of our customers. We are on track to provide 20% of our power through renewable resources by Fiscal Year 2020. You can see a breakdown of our current generation sources at http://www.srpnet.com/about/facts.aspx.
I appreciate this opportunity to address your concern.
You can read more about the E-27 rate at http://www.srpnet.com/prices/home/customergenerated.aspx.
References: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/02/saudi-arabia-desalination-solar/
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