E-cars from China better than Tesla.

Decentralization or centralization of solar energy generation? That is the question. What is the best way to create a new gold rush towards building solar homes and thus giving homeowners the means to charge their own cars. This would spark an increased sale of e-cars. The best policy to charge peoples driving habits to e-cars, is for cities to require all new homes & buildings to be solar powered. That way the owner can generate 400% more energy than the house needs plus earn enough money charging e-cars to pay for the solar panels. This is decentralization of solar generation. California has a new law requiring Utilities to pay solar homeowners $0.15 kwh for solar. San Francisco has a new law requiring all new buildings to be solar powered. This would mean architects could design car charging stations underneath the new 100-panel solar homes to sell energy to their neighbors. This would eliminate the need for digging trenches and laying wires under streets and across the state. PG&E is trying to block the building of 100-panel solar homes. The biggest utility in California will soon learn whether it can install as many as 7,600 electric car charging stations, a controversial plan that would be the single largest deployment of plug-in spots in the country. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s proposal would have ratepayers foot the $160 million cost. This would mean PG&E would be charging e-cars with atomic energy, and whatever other forms of toxic energy they push thru our grid. If the Utilities continue to use atomic, gas, coal & oil to generate energy, the new e-cars would be running on such toxic energies, so the air quality would not improve. The worst possible plan would be to charge e-cars from the currant toxic utility grid mix. Utilities want to build giant solar farms on our deserts, endangering desert animals & birds. It makes more sense to require cities, as SF & Lancaster, Ca. has done, to require all new homes to be solar. This would build more 100-panel solar A-frame 4-plexes, to generate energy where it is most needed: from the roof tops. No need for huge solar farms destroying our delicate desert ecosystem. Obviously Baumhefner is not thinking how to best benefit the solar homeowners, and create local jobs that cannot be off-shored. This would allow people to plug-in at home and create both an upsurge in the building of 100-panel solar homes, and the sales of more e-cars. PG&E’s proposal has little support from environmental organizations, such as the Solar Justice Coalition, Solar Workers Union, or most people in the charging business. “How does this decentralize energy generation?” said David Grace of the SJC. “All it does is allow PG&E to sell more toxic fossil fuels to e-cars.” said Bryant Foster. Most charging companies remain opposed, saying PG&E's proposal blocks competition and is too large. Better to have decentralized energy generation from solar homes. Two consumer groups also have concerns about the size and cost, as well as whether it actually would motivate purchases of plug-in cars. “This is an experiment, and in our view it’s an oversized experiment,” said Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman at consumer group the Utility Reform Network (TURN). “We don’t know that these stations will be used, or will increase EV adoption. If we’re using [PG&E] customer funds to answer those questions, we should certainly start small.” The CPUC’s decision has wide implications, said Anne Smart, director of government relations and regulatory affairs at ChargePoint Inc., the world’s largest network of EV charging stations and an opponent of PG&E’s proposal. “There are several states outside of California actively reviewing the utility role in electrification transportation,” including Maine, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Missouri, she said. Those places “will look toward California as precedent setting for the programs in their own states.” California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wants 1.5 million zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs)—which include plug-ins—on the roads by 2025. Right now, there are an estimated 216,000 plug-in cars in California, according to the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative. That’s out of an estimated 28 million cars in the Golden State, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The CPUC already has approved EV charging plans from the two other big utilities, under a directive from state law S.B. 350. It ordered the agency to get utilities to enact plans that would increase EV usage, indirectly helping cut petroleum use. San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) will spend $45 million and put 10 chargers at each of 350 locations, for a total of 3,500 units. It will use rates to test whether people will charge at desired times.