Report spells out the balancing act local leaders must perform to make over the way the region powers its homes, roads and businesses
“Most of EPRI’s members are electric utility companies that provide funding to EPRI for specific research projects.” County officials last year increased the initial contract with UC San Diego from $430,000 to $641,000 to suggest ways to implement the framework, which the Protect Our Communities Foundation argues was wrongly skewed toward utility-scale renewable power — large commercial wind and solar fields.
According to the suit, the report also sharply underestimated the production potential for rooftop solar, pegging the capacity for rooftop solar at about 3,400 megawatts, while Google software put the potential production level above 14,000 megawatts.