2004-02-14
Power Generation Limits
Once apon a time I lived in California. Now I live in Arizona. California is good for a number of things, but living there is not really one of them. I was born there, but my wife was from the east coast and so she was not that happy about living there. In the early 90s we had a peak in CA events that led to our exodus (things like the Rodney King riots, and the Whittier Earthquake), and I haven't really looked back since.
Once apon a time I lived in California. Now I live in Arizona. California is good for a number of things, but living there is not really one of them. I was born there, but my wife was from the east coast and so she was not that happy about living there. In the early 90s we had a peak in CA events that led to our exodus (things like the Rodney King riots, and the Whittier Earthquake), and I haven't really looked back since.
Pretty much everything is better in Arizona than in California. The taxes are lower (income and sales), land and houses are cheaper, the air is cleaner, there are seasons, we avoid commutes, there are trees (ok, I'm talking about northern Arizona, not Phoenix). I was pretty happy here and would regularly thumb my noses at my old California friends.
Then I read this: State Net Metering Rules.
Arizona
Applicable Sectors: Commercial, Residential
Limit on System Size: 10 kW
California
Applicable Sectors: Commercial, Industrial, Residential
Limit on System Size: 1 MW
Dang it. I really wanted to build a megawatt windfarm ...
