As many of you know, I am the proud owner of a Tesla Model S and do appreciate all that Elon Musk did to promote the use of EVs. I have almost 40,000 miles on mine and it has gone from Boston to Miami several times.
As I watch the news and hear of all the other car companies getting on board with their EV strategies I am impressed at the impact Elon and others has made … until I got my monthly newsletter from them which unveils the sham that most of these companies have portrayed with their claims.
Here is a telling video that exposes them, watch here.
Claims of innovation around renewables over the past few years come to mind in like manner. The average American still has no idea how all these new energy sources are reshaping the power industry and what it is going to really cost to implement.
I do understand the reason utilities are now looking seriously and planning for demand charges in residential rates … I get it … but customers will not. And, unless we transform the customer’s understanding, this is likely to blow up in our faces as they start to realize that this is more about a cost recovery game than embracing energy technology.
Haven’t we learned anything from the challenges with demand charges in commercial and industrial rates? Do we think this kind of rate structure is going to fly with the low-income groups that are growing at staggering rates in our service territories across the country?