Epoch Times - The "Dirty Secrets" of California's Clean Energy | Jim Phelps
Aired: 2022-07-27
Duration: 01:13


=== Greenwashing Electricity (01:13) ===

[00:00:00]  In California, we strive to have green energy.
[00:00:02]  In some cases, we may even pay more to get electricity that is branded as green.
[00:00:08]  But are we really getting green energy?
[00:00:10]  You apply a little bit of magic, sleight of hand, little smoke and mirrors, and the consumer feels like, hey, wow, you know, I got something that's green and I'm feeling good about myself.
[00:00:21]  In reality, you aren't getting what you think you got.
[00:00:24]  You're getting dirty power.
[00:00:26]  Who's responsible for this greenwashing in the electricity space?
[00:00:30]  With all of this gamesmanship behind the scenes and all this exporting of dirty power and we got clean, so aren't we green?
[00:00:37]  You may be, but you just exported dirty and so what are you doing for the environment?
[00:00:42]  My guest today is Jim Phelps, a California utility expert who spent 35 years in the power industry as an engineering contractor and utility rate analyst.
[00:00:52]  Our priorities are all wrong.
[00:00:55]  We've got the wrong people in doing the wrong stuff.
[00:00:57]  We've got our eye over here, you know, on green and not looking at the total cost of being green.
[00:01:02]  Are we really being green?
[00:01:04]  So what exactly is greenwashing?
[00:01:07]  And how is it affecting your utility bills?
[00:01:10]  Let's find out in today's episode.
[00:01:12]  I'm Siamai Korami.