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    Is Solar Energy Too Cheap and Easy in California?

    California homeowners who install solar panels can sell power they don't use back to the utility companies who manage the grid. That can bring the homeowners' bills down to zero. Now, so many consumers have gone solar that the utilities are losing serious money and they're fighting back.

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    By Warren Olney • Sep 29, 2015 • 14m Listen

    California homeowners who install solar panels can sell power they don't use back to the utility companies who manage the grid. That can bring the homeowners' bills down to zero. Now, so many consumers have gone solar that the utilities are losing serious money and they're fighting back. We get background from KCRW's Saul Gonzalez, then hear about proposals to modify the status quo.

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    Solar v. Utility Companies
    1. 0:17Is Solar Energy Too Cheap and Easy in California?You’re reading this
    2. 14:44Santa Monica City Council to Vote on Minimum Wage
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Christine Detz

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Saul Gonzalez

      Reporter

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      Mike Campbell

      Office of Ratepayer Advocates

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      Severin Borenstein

      faculty director, Haas Energy Institute at UC Berkeley

      News

    The full episode

    1 of 2
    Solar v. Utility Companies
    1. 0:17Is Solar Energy Too Cheap and Easy in California?You’re reading this
    2. 14:44Santa Monica City Council to Vote on Minimum Wage
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