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SSVEC INC is big business these days and hides behind the skirts of the name "Cooperative". Using the tactics of fear and propaganda, SSVEC has convinced its ratepayers it is for the good of all Cooperators to spend $14 million of their money on a new power line for the Sonoita/Elgin/Patagonia Area.
Instead of installing NATURAL GAS generators in this area that would provide the same or better reliability for this area FOR $4 MILLION - a fraction of the 69kV line price of $14 MILLION?
Isn't everyone having to tighten up their belts these days with the downturn of the economy? SSVEC Cooperators are going to have to tighten them up even more, when the next SSVEC rate case goes through to raise rates again, to pay for this line. And then don't forget the rising cost of coal, which happens every year, to raise your rates just a little bit more!
SSVEC can also solve any reliability problem for this area by:
1) Putting 3 wires on the existing line that serve the area. Cost approximately $7 million. A prescriptive easement gives SSVEC the right to use the line. (as opposed to $14 million for a new 69kV line.)
2) Install 1 Megawatt Solar PV array with 1 Megawatt Storage and a 1 Megawatt Natural Gas Generator to prevent the line from ever reaching Peak Load, all of this for $7.5 Million.
The Bottom Line is Arizona Corporation Commissioner Sandra Kennedy stood up for lower rates, low cost renewable energy and locally generated energy, by voting no to SSVEC's 69kV Line, and spending cooperator dollars unwisely.
We need to support the Corporation Commissioners that support clean and locally generated energy, and Commissioners that will stand up for ratepayer rights.
Stopping this unnecessary power line here will send a message to SSVEC to tighten up their (our) purse strings and change their business model. We cannot afford a rate increase every year, which is what SSVEC is proposing. Let the Arizona Corporation Commissioners know "NO more rate increases for unnecessary expenses!"
In the end we, the Cooperators, pay for SSVECs bad business decisions.
Gail Getzwiller, SSVEC Cooperator
Sonoita
Instead of installing NATURAL GAS generators in this area that would provide the same or better reliability for this area FOR $4 MILLION - a fraction of the 69kV line price of $14 MILLION?
Isn't everyone having to tighten up their belts these days with the downturn of the economy? SSVEC Cooperators are going to have to tighten them up even more, when the next SSVEC rate case goes through to raise rates again, to pay for this line. And then don't forget the rising cost of coal, which happens every year, to raise your rates just a little bit more!
SSVEC can also solve any reliability problem for this area by:
1) Putting 3 wires on the existing line that serve the area. Cost approximately $7 million. A prescriptive easement gives SSVEC the right to use the line. (as opposed to $14 million for a new 69kV line.)
2) Install 1 Megawatt Solar PV array with 1 Megawatt Storage and a 1 Megawatt Natural Gas Generator to prevent the line from ever reaching Peak Load, all of this for $7.5 Million.
The Bottom Line is Arizona Corporation Commissioner Sandra Kennedy stood up for lower rates, low cost renewable energy and locally generated energy, by voting no to SSVEC's 69kV Line, and spending cooperator dollars unwisely.
We need to support the Corporation Commissioners that support clean and locally generated energy, and Commissioners that will stand up for ratepayer rights.
Stopping this unnecessary power line here will send a message to SSVEC to tighten up their (our) purse strings and change their business model. We cannot afford a rate increase every year, which is what SSVEC is proposing. Let the Arizona Corporation Commissioners know "NO more rate increases for unnecessary expenses!"
In the end we, the Cooperators, pay for SSVECs bad business decisions.
Gail Getzwiller, SSVEC Cooperator
Sonoita
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Listening Cooperator wrote on Sep 8, 2010 8:27 PM: