What is Green Path North?
One of the biggest advantages of renewable energy is that it can be generated virtually anywhere. Germany, for example, leads the world in solar energy production. Germany is not known for it's excessive sunshine, yet 90% of Germany's solar energy is produced by solar panels on buildings. This is called Point Of Use generation, or Distributed Generation. It is a fact that Los Angeles has almost twice the solar resources as Germany.
LADWP leaders and Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa have visited Germany. They know that, like in Germany, low interest loans to home and business owners for rooftop solar systems lead to huge surges in solar installations - thereby boosting needed renewable enrgy supplies. California's AB 811 was passed in July 2008 to help cities like L.A. establish these loan programs.
LADWP leaders and Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa have visited Germany. They know that, like in Germany, low interest loans to home and business owners for rooftop solar systems lead to huge surges in solar installations - thereby boosting needed renewable enrgy supplies. California's AB 811 was passed in July 2008 to help cities like L.A. establish these loan programs.
Green Path North is an 85 mile high voltage transmission line proposed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. If built, It would begin at a new electrical substation in the Palm Springs area, and travel up through the high desert to reach another new electrical substation in the Victorville area. LADWP applied for a Right-Of-Way with the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) in December 2006. To view that application, click here.
Green Path North will also involve the taking of private properties through eminent domain. LADWP claims they need the line to help them meet their renewable energy goals of 20% by 2010.
Green Path North will also involve the taking of private properties through eminent domain. LADWP claims they need the line to help them meet their renewable energy goals of 20% by 2010.
THIS IS A COMPLETE LIE!
The second component to Germany's successful solar energy program is what are called "feed-in-tariffs" or FIT's. When consumers are offered fair payments for surplus renewable energy they can generate and feed into their local grid for others to use, the necessary financial incentives to invest into rooftop solar systems appear. As Germany has shown, this promotes heavy Point Of Use solar energy participation.
Mayor Villaraigosa and LADWP have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to promote AB 811 type loans for Los Angeles home and business owners wanting to install solar rooftop systems.
LADWP wants to compete with other California energy suppliers. If this had anything to do with increasing renewable energy supplies in L.A., Mayor Villaraigosa and LADWP would instead promote generating Point Of Use renewables that eliminate the uneccessary expense of new transmission lines - not rely on them. Instead they are pushing for a power line that will bring them higher profits at the expense of the tax payers and rate payers - and especially the desert residents.
Mayor Villaraigosa and LADWP have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to promote feed-in-tariff policy in
Los Angeles, despite the evidence feed-in-tariffs are best at increasing fast renewable energy supplies.
When you combine low interest loans with feed-in-tariffs, as we have seen in Germany and 40 other countries around the world with similar energy policies, you get an explosion in home and business owner rooftop solar installations. This locally generated energy eliminates the need for new power lines, and in fact reduces congestion on existing power lines by reducing demand. It is the safest, fastest, cleanest, and least expensive way to increase renewable energy supplies. LADWP and L.A Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa know all this, so why are they pushing for the Green Path North transmission line instead?
Simple. LADWP wants ownership. This is not about doing what is necessary to meet renewable energy goals. This is the LADWP greenwash. Green Path North is about owning a new power line and owning the electricity for the purposes of price and supply manipulation.
Simple. LADWP wants ownership. This is not about doing what is necessary to meet renewable energy goals. This is the LADWP greenwash. Green Path North is about owning a new power line and owning the electricity for the purposes of price and supply manipulation.
Mojave Desert sunset ruined by long distance power lines already serving L.A.
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