Comments on: Will new community power beat PG&E prices?

By: accountingscam

accountingscam — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:28:52 +0000

I found out I am being scammed by this “accounting trick” called SCP. Here is why: In May 2013 I installed a solar system with Net Energy Metering with PG&E. At true up in May 2014 I had a ~$300 bill for the year a $4/month PG&E connection bill and very happy with the rate of return. Then in Nov of 2014 SCP came onboard and due to this the entire thing was trued up again, reseting everything to zero and moving my true up aniversary to Nov. I was on track to yet again a $300 bill for the year. Now it is a year later in Nov 2015, yet this time I have a $928 true-up bill with PG&E and a $550 some credit with SCP. The kicker is I cannot access this credit with SCP to offset my PG&E bill! So I am stuck with a big bill just around the holidays with Christmas and everything. This credit with SCP doesn’t do anything for my cash flow! Of cource I will not get a bill for SCP for some time, since it will be eating up this credit, but still that does not help me with this real bill now. SCP will cash out in May 2016 if there is any residual credit, so in a sense I am “loaning” SCP my money for the difference over these few months. What a scam!!!.

By: boss

boss — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:56:16 +0000

PG an E is a crooked sob out fit my friend is disbaled on care and she has to pay 1689 jusdt to deliver this bs my gawwwd when do people every stand up to these crooks in the usa they plain right out rip people off

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:47:04 +0000

In reply to Ed the Independent Contractor. For one, all politicians act for themselves but claim their imaginary friend (SONOMA COUNTY or some other municipal corporation) is the one with the liability BECAUSE they have no personal liability, no bond that can pay out if they screw things up, claim immunity from prosecution and tort claims (money claims) in court, etc. There is never any consequences for the slave masters ONLY for the slaves (thats the man and woman on the street). Wake up and take notice of this fact.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:59:48 +0000

The american corporate business model is so completely rotten, brain dead and intertwined with corrupt elements of government at every level that we should throw in the towel and go full SOVIET.

To refresh our memory, in the Sovietsky Soyuz, among other things, EVERY citizen had:

1) A guaranteed job/useful thing to do during the day. Unemployment was ZERO %.
2) Guaranteed housing, everyone. No homelessness….
3)Totally free medical care and education for ALL… (their educational system, BTW, was quite good, very rigorous…)
etc…
As far as that silly freedom thing goes, since we as a society are completely unwilling to forgoe even 10 minutes of waddling through Costco to defend our freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, right to own firearms, posse commitatus, etc etc, then screw it! We deserve to be enslaved by some grey concrete bunker government….

By: Ed the Independent Contractor

Ed the Independent Contractor — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:13:37 +0000

Sounds like a scam by the county politicians to create a bureaucracy that they can control for the additional power and potential influence the bureaucracy could provide to the politicians. The county agency will not be able to provide power at significantly lower prices than PG & E. So they are taking an enormous financial risk, to the citizens of Sonoma county, based on some pie in the sky claim of clean power. This will definitely come back to bite them in the posterior. Of course by the time this transpires the elected officials who created this mess will be out of office and will no longer be responsible for the mess and the costs that they created.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:30:24 +0000

A generating plant, whether solar, coal, nuclear or whatever, pushes electrons into the grid.
A consumer draws electrons out of the grid.
So how does the SCP select those ‘cleaner’ electrons for their customers? Of course they can’t. When they buy power it’s whatever electrons are available, so their claims of ‘cleaner energy’ are pure hoax.

By: Norski

Norski — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:39:06 +0000

So can someone please explain again how creating SCP will change the electric generating mix for consumers in Sonoma for the better, short of acquiring higher priced “clean” energy? Are we witnessing another version of the classic shell game here?