Stuff like this makes me wonder if there is truly anything like “clean” energy.
All have sources have public costs. Ironically, only carbon energy will be charged a premium.
I live just over the hill from this. The bottom line is, the NIMBYs are down in the city of LA - they’re the ones who’ll be using this “green power” not us. They like to congratulates themselves on how green they are, at our expense. They don’t want to look at windmills lined up along their own mountain ridges and ugly power lines crisscrossing the sky above their heads, so they screw over the rural dwellers up here. And BTW, this is the Red State part of California - we vote Republican and conservative.
What’s more, all this green power crap is a fraud and a hoax. It’s inefficient, unreliable and wouldn’t even exist without massive government subsidies. The real green and renewable power source is nuclear - but three decades of phony pseudo-environmentalist propaganda has done its work, so that option is literally radioactive.
So what we’re left with is fraudulent, undependable sources of electricity that disfigure the landscape, kill birds, waste water and increase the risk of wildfires in wilderness areas. The perfect “progressive outcome.