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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Colleagues:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A friend asked me about the PG&E <a href="https://www.pge.com/en/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support/general-outage-resources/residential-storage-initiative.html#:~:text=Through%20the%20Residential%20Storage%20Initiative%2C%20we%20are%20providing,frequent%20outages%20due%20to%20climate%20change%20and%20weather."><span style="color:windowtext">Residential Storage Initiative</span></a>. I was unaware of the program but I looked it up and read through the information. Are any of you familiar with it? I would be interested in your thoughts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks in advance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">William</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">PS: In case anyone wants to learn what I understand about it, below is what I wrote to my friend:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The program is to provide Energy Storage Systems (ESS), ostensibly for your convenience during power outages.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The program is implemented by Richard Heath & Associates (RHA), a private company. Their contractors or sub-contractors will do the work. This is a big risk as there are a lot of semi-skilled labor out there.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The program is aimed at powering only selected circuits. I don’t know if you get to choose which circuits. Segregating circuits is easy if your main panel is in an unfinished garage. It’s not so easy if your main panels is installed in the exterior wall of a formal dining room, if you have sub-panels or other complications. There is a field survey and it may be that if your home electrical system is not easy to integrate into maybe you don’t qualify.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">You would be required to enroll in a <a href="https://www.pge.com/en/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support/general-outage-resources/residential-storage-initiative.html#tabs-eaa85f7c5f-item-779fcb001d-tab"><span style="color:windowtext">power saving program</span></a>. From what I can tell in this program you will be notified periodically between 4 and 9 PM on summer days to reduce your power consumption, apparently through a required smart-phone app. You will be compensated by $1/kWh for reducing power. The <a href="https://powersaver.pge.com/faq/#acc-wgd5977-2"><span style="color:windowtext">FAQ page</span></a> on the Power Savers Rewards Program has some information boxes that look like they are supposed to open when clicked but trying three different browsers I could not get the boxes to open. If you read the titles of these boxes they look pretty ominous. Supposedly you are not penalized if you do not reduce power. Reading what I could about this program made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">WM</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Miller Solar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">805-438-5600</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/"><span style="color:windowtext">www.millersolar.com</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">CA Lic. 773985</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p></div></body></html>