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3. What a rip off of California rate payers. They stop producion so rate prices won't go down, or the authorities sell...

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Sun Nov 24, 2024, 11:23 AM

Nov 24

the excess power to neighboring states, thus subsidizing their customers' lower rates.

Seems they need to increase their energy storage capacity by quite a lot instead of ripping off rate payers.

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