Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: California solar sales fell 80% after net metering changes
“California just announced, you know, just put in place major changes to the number one driver to that market, which was net metering, and we just got data today that shows that sales are down 80% across the state.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Del Chiaro: PG&E's $55 monthly fixed charge will disincentivize solar
“PG&E now proposing 55 dollar a month fixed charge on all residential customers. Every single month, it will disincentivize efficiency and conservation and solar energy”
Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: CPUC proposal forces multi-meter solar to repurchase generated power
“The Public Utilities Commission wants to apply the draconian changes to net metering and then some. They want to basically declare every electron that solar system generates on that apartment building and export and then force people to buy it back from PG&E a…”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Del Chiaro: California's electricity load will at least double from electrification
“We anticipate our electricity load is going to at least double just from our electrification initiatives in the next couple of years, and that's not counting any kind of impact climate change has on electricity consumption.”
Assertion Partly supported
Del Chiaro: Pending proposal restricts solar installations to licensed electricians
“There's a proposal right now pending before a licensing board called the California Contractor Licensing Board that would require solar and storage distributed to be only installed by electricians.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Del Chiaro: California needs 180 additional gigawatts of clean power
“California needs a 180 gigawatts more of renewable energy in the next 10 to 15 years. That's additional. We've only built 50.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Del Chiaro: California grid still relies heavily on midday natural gas
“If anybody is geeks out, look at Cal ISO's energy supply and demand on a daily basis any summer day, and you will see we are heavily dependent on natural gas still in the middle of the day at 12 o'clock in the afternoon when the sun is shining brightest.”
Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: Electricity delivery is the largest expense on utility bills
“The expense to rate payers of delivering those electrons into our cities, piping it into our homes and our businesses, is the largest expense right now on a utility bill.”
Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: Rooftop solar grew fastest in working-class communities before NEM 3.0
“Our largest growth in our market prior to this NEM III decision was in working class communities in California.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Del Chiaro: Workforce shortages will eventually slow clean energy adoption
“The speed of the uptick of adoption of electrification technologies is not right now being slowed down by workforce constraints, but it will be in time to get to where we need.”
Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: AB 643 penalizes utilities from shareholder funds over interconnection delays
“We put forward a bill last year in addition to what Senator Becker did. It was authored by Senator Becker's colleague in the South Bay, Mark Berman, and it was, I believe it's AB six 43, but it would basically require that the Public Utilities Commission penal…”
Assertion Partly supported
Del Chiaro: California has 1 GW of distributed residential battery storage
“The largest battery in the world is in California hanging on garage walls. It's a gigawatt worth of energy storage capacity in a distributed fashion.”
Assertion Partly supported
Del Chiaro: California's August blackout shortfall was only 250 MW
“To put that in context, when California had blackouts a couple summer, a couple Augusts ago, the delta in our needs was around 250 megawatts.”
Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: California solar battery attachment rate was 12% last year
“Battery attachment rate last year was maybe 12%, so 12% of consumers going solar added a battery.”
