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Here's a summary of the renewable energy provisions in the recently passed Stimulus bill compiled by ACORE. Most notable for some consumers is that the bill increases the tax credit for qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles for the first 200,000 placed in service. The base amount of the credit is $2500. Batteries with at least 5 kilowatt hours of capacity have a credit of $2917. The credit cannot exceed $5000
Robert A. Kittle, Opinion Editor at the San Diego Union Tribune is at it again. And now he's serving up a heaping helping of "kittle litter" in today's opinion titled "Power Play." His latest "scoop?" Mr. Kittle says that SDG&E knows what's best for you, and that you should trust them. As usual, Bob Kittle's opinion isn't based on facts, it was dictated to him by his cronies at SDG&E. FULL STORY.
IMPERIAL VALLEY LIVING - UCAN, the Utility Consumers' Action Network, has filed an appeal of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approval of San Diego Gas & Electric's Sunrise Powerlink project. UCAN Executive Director Michael Shames is disputing the decision and 18 different point. READ MORE
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)'s December 24, 2008 decision approving the Sunrise Powerlink was an exercise in regulatory wish fulfillment. Rather than accepting the actual facts in the case, the regulators contorted the evidence to achieve their objective of approving the line despite the facts.
UCAN's experts submitted testimony in A. 08-07-017 describing SDG&E's self-acclaimed Solar Energy Project as overly expensive, relying upon antiquated technology and so poorly conceived and researched that it is rendered literally meaningless.
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) may have approved SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink but obstacles to the massive project are ahead starting with a legal challenge by UCAN. READ MORE
San Francisco Chronicle - The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is conducting a hearing today in San Francisco to decide the fate of the controversial Sunrise Powerlink project proposed by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. UCAN Executive Director Michael Shames says he'll take the project to court if it is approved by the state regulatory body. READ MORE
KPBS RADIO - This interview of UCAN's Executive Director, Michael Shames, is about as pithy as it gets when it comes to explaining why the Sunrise PowerLink is such a stupendously bad idea. The idea is so bad, in fact, that SDG&E refused to even answer the questions that KPBS reporters were asking. Full Story.
Comments by various parties on the ALJ's proposed decision and the Grueneich alternate have been filed. They are revealing. UCAN's comments revealed, for the first time, that the cost of Sunrise will be over $24 billion......not the $1.7 billion figure used by SDG&E. The discrepancy? Full story.
As UCAN anticipated, CPUC President Michael Peevey issued a proposed decision favoring SDG&E's position on the Sunrise Powerlink.
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Visit our page dedicated to the Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Project. You will find news, data, legal hearings and testimony, open-letters from UCAN's executive director, and just about everything else you might want to know regarding this important proposal. Or, listen to Michael Shames explain UCAN's opposition to Sunrise in this UCAN.org podcast.
Miracles don't happen often enough in our world. But when Michael starts growing his own fish and food in his garage, then you know that there's some divine intervention because Michael doesn't fish and he's got a brown thumb that makes all leafy things tremble. So how did Advocate Michael become Farmer Michael? One word: AQUAPONICS.
December 8th, 2006 was not a good day for San Diego. On that day, San Diego Gas & Electric asked state regulators for permission to raise base rates for electricity and natural gas customers by some $250 million annually for the years 2008 through 2013. You don't need a calculator to realize that adds up to a chilly $1.5 BILLION over those six years. Listen to Michael Shames explain UCAN's position on SDG&E's rate request.
From SDG&E to SBC, get the real story on undergrounding in San Diego inside this issue center.
In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission, SDG&E has asked for approval to deploy "real-time" advanced meters to all of SDG&E's small business and residential customers. Find out why the SDG&E AMI proposal needed to be substantially revised.
Time lapse of the construction of Michael's new aquaponics system in his garage and a challenge to traditional gardening.
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