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7/19/18  3:36 pm
Commenter: John Haydock Residential Rooftop Solar Owner

Practical but urgent steps needed to reduce impact of climate change
 

Climate Change is proven science and we need to take immediate steps to reduce carbon emmissions.  Please consider the following:  1) Eliminate barriers to customer-owned and third-party financed solar power, 2) Encourage customer-owned battery storage, 3) Develop pumped hydroelectric storage facilities to store wind and solar power -- NOT fossil fuel generation -- and construct them on brownfields, not greenfields, 4) Require utilities and regulators to work harder to reduce retail electricity consumption 10% by 2020, 5) Place a moratorium on new fracked gas pipelines because existing infrastructure can already meet our energy needs, 6) Eliminate the $20 million mining pool bond cap, so that funds will be there to clean up land previously mined for coal.  Thank you for your consideration.  

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