All you need to do is publish the amount of money the utilities and their unions have given to Newsom and influential members of the legislature over the past 4 years. Why does a monopoly need to spend so much money?

Newsom, the CPUC, and the majority of the legislature serves their corporate overseers, the state-sanctioned-monopoly-investor-owned utilities and those utilities' institutional shareholders. Ratepayers be damned. It's a state-sanctioned Ponzi scheme paid by unheard ratepayers.

Good overview of WHY NEM is a terrible policy for ordinary rate payers and *must* eventually be replaced with value-of-solar schemes. More on: "Rooftop Solar Inequity" energyathaas.wordpress.com/2…

They need to pass. There’s no alternative.

Let's hope not. "Ratepayers without rooftop solar face an estimated $6.8 billion in costs in 2024 alone to effectively subsidize some 1.5 million solar-powered customers" spglobal.com/marketintellige…

If the progress of solar ussft depends on the government shoving it down our throat, is it really that useful and a good alternative to fossil fuel?