To the editor: Within the article, “LA Goes Electrical. Can It Do It Justice?” Jack Humphreville asks concerning Division of Water and Energy clear power applications, “How do they profit the taxpayers and the division?”
They profit taxpayers by offering clear air and lowering harm to the setting, together with from pollution that trigger local weather change.
As for fee will increase, what critics of unpolluted power applications fail to understand is that after a renewable power infrastructure is in place, it prices much less to supply electrical energy as a result of there are not any gasoline prices. The DWP already buys photo voltaic power for lower than it might price to supply that electrical energy by burning fossil fuels.
Murray Zichlinsky, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: I used to promote residential photo voltaic programs, each modest houses and huge, costly ones. As a part of the method, I used the proprietor’s previous utilization to find out how giant the system must be.
Rich folks in giant houses used an enormous quantity of electrical energy. It was clear that they had been losing most of it by leaving all of the lights on, operating a number of fridges, having swimming pools with pumps, and dwelling in a home that was too massive to have air-con. That waste price them because the charges are break up.
I recommend the DWP improve the highest degree to get sufficient cash to cowl incentives for effectivity upgrades and photo voltaic programs. Solely wasteful taxpayers are punished as they need to be.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
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To the editor: If most Los Angeles residents are renters, why have there been so few incentives for photo voltaic on residence buildings?
If the DWP desires to assist low-income and non-white Angelenos, who are usually renters, it must rethink incentives primarily geared toward householders.
Daniel Tenenbaum, Pacific Palisades