utility obfuscation and obstruction [RE-wrenches]

[jeff.oldham at realgoods.com]

Does anyone know the real deal in regards to this insurance issue for both
residential and commercial customers? I have written "demands" from PG&E for
both customer classes. This great Wrenches group usually clears the fog,
this time it is moving in fast and giving me a bad hair day.

Specific citations would be awesome!

thanks for any help...

-jeff

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Welch, Home Power [mailto:michael.welch at homepower.com]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:37 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: utility obfuscation and obstruction [RE-wrenches]


Joel Davidson wrote at 08:53 PM 05/12/2002 -0700:
  
>It is against the net metering law for a utility company to even ask a
homeowner
>about insurance. It was this specific kind of utility abuse and other
abuses
>that the net metering law was changed in 1998. You might want to give the
REU
>general manager a copy of the law.

Don't think the law applies to municipal utilities here in sunny CA, Joel.

But Baran. You might mention in a letter to the editor of the local rags
that the utility is being unreasonable, and that future solar interties in
the community may be guerrilla until they see the light.
  
Michael Welch
  
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