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Next 10-UC Berkeley study suggests additional tax revenue or income-based rate structure to make electricity more affordable for Californians

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These high prices result from uncommonly large fixed costs that are bundled into kilowatt-hour prices and passed on to customers. What Californians pay is much higher than the true marginal cost of using electricity. This puts an unnecessary cost burden on low- and middle-income households as we transition to using clean electricity.

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NAATBatt Coalition recommends deployment of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage systems by 2022

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A coalition of 13 leading industrial companies and electric utilities, including General Motors Company, The Dow Chemical Company and Duke Energy, issued a white paper recommending the installation of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage (DES) systems around the country by 2022. value proposition.

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Demand Charges: The Secret Cost to EV Charging

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I don’t think any of us — except, perhaps, those lucky enough to have solar panels — enjoy getting our electric bill. The point of demand charges is to levy extra costs on those that put the biggest strain on the power grid, to offset the damage they do. So, How Does All This Hide Costs?

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

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California-based WattEV is building a network of charging hubs designed for electric trucks, incorporating solar generation, battery storage and active energy management. On the solar field, we were originally looking at single-axis tracking, but as we dug into it, we saw that it becomes very costly. Salim: Yeah. Salim: Absolutely.