Tell AARP: Stop lobbying to kill rooftop solar
Nancy McPherson, AARP State Director, Joe Garbanzos, AARP California President and Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP CEO
AARP is lobbying, in partnership with utilities like PG&E, to make it more expensive for California seniors to access rooftop solar. AARP's actions will result in higher electricity bills and more blackouts for California seniors.
Rooftop solar protects seniors on fixed incomes from utility price gouging. Solar-powered batteries protect seniors with medical issues and disabilities from life-threatening blackouts. And rooftop solar reduces electricity costs for everyone whether they have solar by reducing the cost of the electrical grid.
Despite these facts, AARP is repeating utility misinformation about rooftop solar, and lobbying state energy officials to make solar twice as expensive as it is today by:
- Charging solar users new monthly fees just for having solar
- Slashing the credit solar users receive for sharing their extra solar energy with their neighbors.
AARP should stop pushing the utilities' agenda, and should instead focus on helping millions more seniors and other Californians get rooftop solar and batteries.
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Nancy McPherson, AARP State Director, Joe Garbanzos, AARP California President and Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP CEO
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Please cease AARP's lobbying campaign to keep rooftop solar out of the hands of middle and working class Californians.
Rooftop solar protects seniors on fixed incomes from utility price gouging. Solar-powered batteries protect seniors with medical issues and disabilities from life-threatening blackouts. And rooftop solar reduces electricity costs for everyone whether they have solar by reducing the cost of the electrical grid.
I expect AARP to advocate to help millions of people gain access to rooftop solar, rather than helping to advance the utility agenda.