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>Huge kick in the nuts for everyone that installed solar. Especially those of us in San Diego county

How so? Did you not invest in solar in order to decrease your carbon footprint?

If you did it to save money, the evidence is pretty clear that without subsidies a lot of green industries are unsustainable. Government policy can change on a whim.

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This sort of smug "Did you not invest in solar in order to decrease your carbon footprint?" with the implied "Why did you expect it to save you money?" argument is not going to be productive if your goal is reducing emissions.

Selling solar as a means to lower your costs in an environmentally friendly way, then raising prices in a way that cancels out those savings and smugly telling angry people that they were supposed to do it for the environment without concern for cost to themselves is only going to make them less receptive to your cause.

Your information is quite a few years out of date. The solar learning curve has continued in the meantime, reducing the cost every year. Especially in sunny places like California, unsubsidised solar pays for itself surprisingly quickly (I don’t have the numbers for CA, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the number was 10 years).

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