The Intermountain Rural Electric Cooperative is proposing to cut the residential credit for solar electricity and add a new charge based on peak demand. (Patrick Traylor, The Denver Post)
Re: “Cost of solar power vexing to Colorado system owners, electric co-ops,” June 7 business news story.
The best things in life are free, except in America, where we not only have to pay for our water — and, indirectly, clean air — but now, for sunshine.
Utility companies know that individual solar could already be replacing a lot of fossil fuel-powered installations, and storage solutions for solar are progressing rapidly, so that the need for centralized power, especially for homes and small buildings, may be rapidly dwindling. Of course, utilities are challenging distributive (individual) solar installations, and as would be expected, the powers that be — the utility companies — don’t want to become the powers that were.
R. Kiefer, Arvada
This letter was published in the June 14 edition.
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