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What's the poorest you've ever been?
"What's the poorest you've ever been?" Right now, after getting a $70K + 10% interest billing from SDG&E and Sempra Energy.— April 15, 2010 11:55 a.m.
San Diego goes to smart-energy meters
RE #12: LOL! The last time I was tangentially involved in anything like that, it involved a high school district admin program back in the 1970s. If I remember correctly, the district's HP2000F sys op was cool about our brut-force password entry/mangling of records and just ran the backup tape from 5 pm that day, copied well before our evening school hack attack... The district shall remain nameless. Go, Matadors!— April 15, 2010 11:45 a.m.
Surprise! A Present from Sempra
PG&E (of Prop. 16 constitutional amendment fame), SCE, and Sempra Energy's SDG&E still have their Wildfire Expense Balancing Account (WEBA) application before the California Public Utilities Commission. Under WEBA if later approved, all uninsured wildfire legal expenses and other related costs get lumped together and billed to investor owned utility customers for decades, whether the utilities negligently caused the fires or not. http://209.216.247.56/search?q=WEBA&site=sdreader To make sure we make those payments to them and don't start municipal utilities to replace the investor owned utilities like SDG&E, Prop. 16 goes to a vote in June 2010.— April 15, 2010 11:29 a.m.
Last of SPAWAR Defendants Sentenced to Prison
RE #6: One got something of the sense of it during the congressional testimony scenes of Howard Hughes in THE AVIATOR (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/), but not nearly alluded to in as much depth and detail as in refriedgringo's story above... On the other hand, there were some off-campus parties near SDSU at which I may or may not have been in attendance that seem vaguely similar...— April 13, 2010 12:52 p.m.
San Diego goes to smart-energy meters
RE #10: This could be a good deal for people wanting to do a permit-required grid-connected residential solar upgrade. Personally, I'm not tying any solar panels I have or will get in the future to the power grid. There's too much paperwork and federal/state regulatory hoops to jump through for my tastes. Plus, my objective by installing off-grid solar panels is to protect myself from grid brown-out/failure while avoiding the new City of San Diego fee on grid-connected solar upgrade permits. For those who want the best of both worlds, I understand that it is possible to pay all of the fees and have all the work done for a grid-connected solar panel setup, THEN install a cutoff switch so that the only time one is actually connected to the grid is whenever one has to power down the home system during maintenance. With smart meters installed, SDG&E may get credit for the time when the QF house is online but not for most of the time when the house is providing power that does not go to the grid. You can avoid the FERC QF regulatory hearings by simply forfeiting excess power pumped into the grid to SDG&E. For sneaky people, it may be possible to supply excess power only to one's neighbors on your side of the street as an electricity cooperative that is beyond CPUC jurisdiction and that does not require any FERC QF approval... but I'll have to go back through the California Public Utilities Code to find the exact code sections that cover that topic.— April 13, 2010 12:35 p.m.
CVN 70 Arriving Now!
USS Carl Vinson arriving: We are grateful for the boost to the local economy.— April 12, 2010 1:56 p.m.
San Diegans Dominate Delinquent Tax List
And the firm name EDCO has surfaced. Contrast that with the Allied maneuvering for an outsource trash-collection contract from the City of San Diego: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/feb/10/un… As for Independent Interpreters, all I can find out so far is that the firm has a local address on Friars Road near Via Las Cumbres. Could it be that II's tax liability problems stem from the state-disputed categorization of "independent contractors" who should otherwise have been better named as employees? As has been said, they are free to chime in and clarify...— April 12, 2010 1:49 p.m.
Kittle to Take News Slot at KUSI-TV
Found some interesting comments on Kittle's departure from the U-T, in an article by Rob Davis from August 2009: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/economics/article_…— April 12, 2010 1:22 p.m.
San Diego goes to smart-energy meters
RE #8: I also suspect that smart metering will allow SDG&E to brown-out newer "smart" appliances at residential addresses during peak usage, if the demand by commercial customers so dictates. As it is now, we residents are admonished not to run our major appliances during normal business hours... This suspicion of mine is why I urge home-owning SDG&E customers to have a little off-grid generating capacity of our own, besides reducing our monthly energy bill and having that capacity as a self-insurance against wildfire outages and other grid failures (see #5 above for "On Keeping 3+ CFL Bulbs Burning Free For Life").— April 12, 2010 10:28 a.m.
San Diegans Dominate Delinquent Tax List
RE #11: Wow... scratch a Thunderbird, find a slot machine maker sewing up the gambling action around the Gulf of Mexico. "I remember that when Fitch was [Poway] asst city manager, he also was paid for some consulting work at one of the casinos, I think it was the same one Mitchell worked with." It makes me wonder how many government bureaucrats are actually running their own private "consulting" or real estate businesses from behind their desks, possibly on the public's dime.— April 12, 2010 10:14 a.m.