Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
As residential rooftop solar is increasing in popularity, NATIONSNAME Gas and Electric (HG&E) has begun to offer resistance to the current billing structure, complaining that households’ electric bills are so low they can no longer afford to maintain the grid. With rhetoric on all sides becoming increasingly high voltage, HG&E is asking you to approve a change in their fee structure.
I’ve encountered with 4 choices
1. CEO Joule Ohm of HG&E sweeps the papers off your desk, slams down his proposed fee structure, and then begins to speak, “If we are to maintain the grid while keeping power affordable for the poor, there has to be a change to the system. We need a flat grid fee charged monthly to all households regardless of energy use. With a grid fee, we can reduce the per kilowatt usage fee, so most users will hardly notice the difference.”
2. “I couldn’t think of a better plan to kill my business!” yells Justin Haynes, the amped-up CEO of Sol Invictus, NATIONSNAME’s biggest rooftop solar installation company. “If the power company charges you a huge fee no matter how much power you use, who will want solar panels? I have a bright solution. If HG&E needs more money, let them raise the per kilowatt usage fees for everyone. But we need electricity meters in every household to track energy usage and whether homes with solar panels are producing surplus power to sell back to the grid. Let’s let the market determine the price of power!”
3. “I could think of a better way to kill solar,” wheezes Patty Palpatine, the octogenarian CEO of Relaxed Diamond Coal Company. “Ban it! Rooftop solar panels are eyesores, and they’re driving out NATIONSNAME’s mom and pop coal companies. No more, I say! We’re blessed with plentiful coal deposits; let’s use them to make cheap, local power. As for those global warming alarmists, why, the weatherman can’t even predict tomorrow’s weather, never mind the weather 50 years from now.”
4. “This problem needs a solution grasped from the future, not grounded in the industrial revolution!” declares celebrity green-energy venture capitalist Melon Husk. “My company is beginning to develop initial prototypes for large-capacity home-use batteries. However, to make this viable in the near future, we just need a smidgen of government subsidies for research and production. I think the batteries we’ll develop will be affordable and, combined with solar panels, they’ll almost certainly be able to provide households with their energy demands. I’m pretty sure we can make power lines a thing of the past!”
5. Dismiss the issue
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Option 4. sounds cool so I choose it.
The result saids ‘The government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Industry: Information Technology
Fann-Boi Productivity Index 4.0%
Scientific Advancement
Kurzweil Singularity Index 1.2%
Environmental Beauty
Pounds Of Wildlife Per Square Mile 0.89%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 0.72%
Business Subsidization
Gilded Widget Scale 0.62%
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 0.57%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.29%
Lifespan
Years 0.22%
Average Income
CURRENCY 0.20%
Economic Output
CURRENCY 0.20%
Human Development Index
Human Development Index 0.12%
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 0.06%
Economy
Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index 0.06%
And decline in this qualities
Employment
Workforce Participation Rate 0.07%
Welfare
Safety Net Mesh Density Rating 0.20%
Public Healthcare
Theresa-Nightingale Rating 0.20%
Public Education
Edu-tellignce® Test Score 0.20%
Eco-Friendliness
Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index 0.20%
Public Transport
Societal Mobility Rating 0.20%
Foreign Aid
Clooney Contribution Index 0.20%
Sector: Manufacturing
Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index 0.20%
Industry: Mining
Blue Sky Asbestos Index 7.0%
This choice is nice.
