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PG&E's Schlumberger Centron® two-way electricity meter for "net energy metering"

an interview with PG&E spokesperson Paul Moreno about PG&E's "net energy metering" program

In order to provide potentially-useful information to customers of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), the Electric Sunshine Channel spoke today with Paul Moreno, a PG&E spokesperson, about that investor-owned utility's "net energy metering" program, under which PG&E customers who install and operate photovoltaic solar electricity generating systems are allowed to pump the surplus electricity produced by their residential and commercial electric sunshine systems back into the grid from which they, and other customers, traditionally only RECEIVE electricity, in the process running their electric meters backward and, in many cases, significantly reducing their electric bills, while contributing to a cleaner environment, reducing California's dependence on external sources of energy, and helping the utility meet its demands for peak electrical power.

You can listen to this interview with PG&E spokesperson Paul Moreno by clicking on the appropriate menu button in the Brightcove Player containing Etopia News's Electric Sunshine Channel below.

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You can listen to yesterday's interview with Bryon King about the magnitude of Chevron's recent accomplishment in finding oil 6 miles down in the Gulf of Mexico and how the need for such Herculean efforts corroborates the validity of peak oil theory, as well as a wealth of additional programs about implementing a sustainable strategy for survival on the basis of renewable energy, by clicking on the various menu buttons in the Brightcove Player containing the Sustainable Cities Channel from Etopia News, below.

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The Brightcove Player below, which contains over four hours of audio and video programming featuring leaders and experts in the fields of peak oil and global warming, includes two interviews (one audio, one video) with Caltech Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil Dr. David Goodstein; arguments from Dr. Shelley Luce and Scott Macdonald in favor of, and in opposition to, California's $4 billion oil severance tax and alternative energy funding program, respectively; conversations with Monica Gilchrist and Mary Luevano at Santa Monica-based Global Green USA (a green-building organization supported by Brad Pitt); an audio interview, recorded in 2000, with Ross Gelbspan, author then of The Heat is On and, by now, also of The Boiling Point; and also audio interviews with Bryant Urstadt, author of the August, 2006, Harper's Magazine cover story, "Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse" and Randy White, a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.

The Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel Brightcove Player below also contains an audio interview almost an hour long with Robert Rapier, frequent contributor to the peak oil information site The Oil Drum ("Discussions about energy and our future"), in which he talks about California Proposition 87, Vinod Khosla (one of its two main backers), ethanol, and related subjects.

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