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There's a rule banning gas water heaters in 2027 (www.baaqmd.gov)
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Just came across this new rule, via this article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/california-electric-19563602.php

2027 is when they ban sale of new replacement gas water heaters.

They talk about a few solutions, like low voltage electric heaters, and load sharing plugs to share a dryer plug among the water heater and a electric dryer. So that could do it for a lot of people.
But I'd guess a surge in panel replacements will happen within the next 2 years.
Especially since new gas furnaces will be banned in 2029.

Also, obligatory Fuck PGE. We have higher rates than most of the rest of the world and it's all the fault of the corrupt PUC and PGE.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

California has not had summer blackouts in 20 years since Enron and other Texas energy companies did a criminal conspiracy to idle power plants and drive the price through the roof.

Texas still has summer and winter blackouts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are local outages due to trees causing downed lines, squirrels getting into transformers, motor vehicle accidents, etc. They aren't the same as the blackouts like you get from an overloaded or strained power grid like they have in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know what? If you believe that, you can continue believing it. Don't need any more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Exactly, keep believing what you experienced for 20 years actually happened