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Peeved Commissioner Peevey hints at CPUC's disarray
What's your latest understanding of the efficiencies of rooftop photovoltaic versus centralized solar thermal? (Solar thermal, to my understanding, would be very tough for individual homes due to the footprint and enabling infrastructure required.) Last I heard when I attended a renewables conference a couple years back was that solar thermal technology was more than twice as efficient at converting photons into electrons, and still improving, while PV had leveled out. I'm all for distributed energy solutions, and I do feel rooftop solar is an important part of that because it allows households to take control and go green now, in weeks or months rather than years. Solar thermal farms take a lot more planning and permitting (and bickering) to happen.— May 29, 2014 10:17 a.m.
Peeved Commissioner Peevey hints at CPUC's disarray
It's amazing to me that different people can watch the same proceeding and come away with totally different impressions. Lawyers should be assertive advocates, but in my opinion Aguirre went FAR over the line to aggressive, obnoxious and borderline slanderous. His behavior showed enormous disrespect for the judge, the commissioners and the entire process. The judge showed incredible patience with him in the face of behavior I'm told in any other type of court would have resulted in a contempt citation, sanctions and a fine. Long before he succeeded in baiting Peevey into that outburst, which was clearly his goal, his grandstanding had made a mockery of this entire portion of the proceedings. I'm sure Peevey regrets his outburst, but the content was appropriate. The proceeding had no provision for Aguirre to question him, let alone go after him so aggressively, thus "I'm not here to answer your questions." Those were the rules for the proceeding and Aguirre was responsible for knowing them, which the judge repeatedly alluded to throughout Aguirre's grandstanding. And the judge had politely told Aguirre on multiple occasions to "stop talking now" and other such warnings when he was (way) out of order. Peevey, no doubt, thought the judge should have told Aguirre to shut up — or compelled him to do so — long before that exchange took place. I encourage any fair-minded individual to view the entire proceeding for themselves. You can love or hate the CPUC process, the individuals running it, the troubling issues around San Onofre and more. To me, it seemed like 5 seconds of an unfortunate outburst by Peevey after something like 40 minutes of almost non-stop misbehavior by Aguirre.— May 29, 2014 9:58 a.m.