Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the sometimes-I-despair dept.

NewsOK reports that the Oklahoma legislature has passed a bill that allows regulated utilities to apply to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to charge a higher base rate to customers who generate solar and wind energy and send their excess power back into the grid reversing a 1977 law that forbade utilities to charge extra to solar users. "Renewable energy fed back into the grid is ultimately doing utility companies a service," says John Aziz. "Solar generates in the daytime, when demand for electricity is highest, thereby alleviating pressure during peak demand."

The state's major electric utilities backed the bill but couldn't provide figures on how much customers already using distributed generation are getting subsidized by other customers. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and Public Service Co. of Oklahoma have about 1.3 million electric customers in the state. They have about 500 customers using distributed generation. Kathleen O'Shea, OG&E spokeswoman, said few distributed generation customers want to sever their ties to the grid. "If there's something wrong with their panel or it's really cloudy, they need our electricity, and it's going to be there for them," O'Shea said. "We just want to make sure they're paying their fair amount of that maintenance cost." The prospect of widespread adoption of rooftop solar worries many utilities. A report last year by the industry's research group, the Edison Electric Institute, warns of the risks posed by rooftop solar (PDF). "When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened," the report said. "As this threat to growth becomes more evident, investors will become less attracted to investments in the utility sector."

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:17AM (#34672)

    Lick my asshole you shit-eating faggots!!

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   -1  
       Offtopic=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Offtopic' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   -1  
  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @02:51AM (#34688)

    Your taint quivers rhythmically as the tip of my pointed tongue dances along the annulus of your anus, with its rosy-pink convolutions formerly coated with balsamic vinegar salad dressing for my dinner and now coated with honey for my dessert.

    You see, everybody, he and I met in the library bathroom downtown back when I used to hang out on Slashdot. He had just taken a shit one day and I, though having missed him, did not miss his turd. It was, as I recall, a "sausage fit for a king," and I greedily gobbled up as much as I could and took the rest home in my briefcase.

    He was the one who got away, and so I waited patiently in the stall of that restroom peeking out the door-crack of my stall with my dick in hand, looking for he "the one." Finally, after a week and a half, he sits down in the stall next to mine. I felt my hand brushing the underside the stall wall, massaging it like you would (and did!) a goat's belly, indicating that I wanted to make that bathroom a tearoom with my stall as the bed of consummation, farting whenever he did in solidarity and interest. My patience had paid off, for he rolled under the partition, from his stall into mine, a knurled and hard-packed but grenade-shaped treat as an amuse-bouche before the main course; large and yet still reminiscent of the prize pellets my pet hamster had produced from his furry little tush when I was a kid. And they were just as tasty as chocolate Tic-Tacs(R), in fact, I put them in a Tic-Tac(R) box and dispensed them to my friends, who told me they taste like Indian clay.

    I could tell from the density and hardness of it that he was working out a lot more. Those prize nuggets were as chewy as Tootsie Rolls(R) in some spots, Jack Links(R) in others. A rich, meaty taste for sure, like veal.

    My name is, in fact, Billy Rubins. My parents were two German organic chemists who named me after the chemical bilirubin. [wikipedia.org] Now here is a scientific fact about bilirubin: Shit doesn't turn brown until the air hits it, and that color-transformation is a direct result of bilirubin. So why did my parents name me after Biliruben? Because they both have brown hair, and the often told me as a kid they always knew that my hair would be colored "shit-brown."

    They were correct.

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by edIII on Wednesday April 23 2014, @03:14AM

      by edIII (791) on Wednesday April 23 2014, @03:14AM (#34693)

      As offtopic as this is, in its own way is quite brilliantly executed. It thoroughly convinced me that a universe existed where only anus and chocolate dick existed, and feces were represented as if they were the Higgs Boson.

      The revelation that he was German was rather cliche, but I found the segueway to the chemistry lesson to be jarring and provocative.

      I've seen better trolls, but not many.

      --
      Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
      • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday April 23 2014, @03:36AM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday April 23 2014, @03:36AM (#34699) Homepage

        I disagree. That guy's a fucking sicko and a racist.

        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @04:03AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @04:03AM (#34706)

          So just like yourself.