Does yours have a website you can use through a mobile browser? With the exception of mobile depositing checks, which I do once every 15 years or so, I an do all of my banking in the browser

TL;DR - CA needs more storage to better enable renewables growth, but otherwise the article is a bit of a solar hit piece.

The article muddies the waters by trying to connect cost savings in neighboring states who buy CA excess solar as “lost” revenue for CA ratepayers.

In some cases, negative prices do count as a small loss in the budgets, but generally, just because CA excess solar is cheaper than NM fossil fueled power does not mean anyone is “losing”.

The article does mention Wall Street speculators profiting off of the energy market, which is a loss for ratepayers, but it’s a problem with existing forecasting models, not solar. If utility modeling was better than Wall Street, there would be no profit for outside investors.

A custom domain is $12/yr, and SimpleLogin lets you do automatic regex emails, so I can just make a quick website.spam@customdomain.com email for each website. Would recommend.

Businesses make decisions based on money. People make decisions based on vibes.

The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.

That’s not to say you can’t use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.

Not trying to be a “nuclear shill”, but it is worth mentioning from the article you linked:

The 1.8 million solar panels are expected to generate up to 690 MW and they’re co-located with 380 MW of 4-hour battery energy storage (1,400 MWh).

The capacity factor of solar is something around 25%, so that 690 MW solar array (even with batteries) produces about as much energy as ~160 MW nuclear… So 7x faster, but the costs are closer than you suggest. Solar is still cheaper because the O&M costs are minimal, but pretending 690 MW solar + 380 MW battery is equivalent to 1 GW nuclear is a bit disingenuous.

All of the banks I’ve used in the past utilize email or SMS for 2FA, which isn’t the most secure, but doesn’t require an app.