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“So in my district, it takes about 70 weeks, which is hard to believe, like seven, no, seven 70 weeks to get things connected, to get new charging infrastructure, for example connected to the grid.”

“So I think it's a big mistake to disincentivize rooftop solar at this time and believe that we can both do that and do things like central procurement, make sure we actually build offshore wind, which is, as you know, is going to take seven to 10 years anyway…”

“So the number one contributor to the state legislature is the Western States petroleum initiative, right? By far.”

“The problem is we stuff lots of things into rates, right? We stuff in all the wildfire costs into rates. The care program, which is a five billion dollar program, we put that into rates. So we put everything into rates.”

“We spent a billion dollars on dirty legacy, you know, once through cooling, heavily polluting plants, just because we might need them for, like, 15 hours a year.”

“We're reducing emissions about one percent a year. And even to hit our own 20, 30 goals, we've got to be reducing emissions four to five percent a year.”

“From being in the legislature, there's not enough, by far, the clean energy community does not show up in a, in, in, in a big enough way in elections or in policy in Sacramento, and that's a big problem, and we need to fix it.”

“So I think longer term, we have to do something like that because the high rates disincentivize the switch to electrification, which is what we all want is what we need for our energy policy.”

“And this year, the Kaiso approved A 7.5 billion dollars of transmission projects, about 45 different transmission projects.”

“Because we basically call a government database and we pay the same 10 cents per page to download a document that anyone does.”