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DEC. 30, 2022
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Southwest flight woes . strike SoCal
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Thousands THE in travel limbo as VISTA NEWS airline flounders
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By City News Service
REGION — Southwest Airlines continued to cancel thousands of flights this week and has listed all flights departing from Southern California as “unavailable’’ through Saturday in a holiday travel boondoggle that U.S. TransRANCHO portation Secretary Peter SFNEWS Buttigieg called a complete meltdown by the airline. Southwest Airlines is not the only air carrier facing problems with staying on schedule and providing passengers with flights in and out of Southern California airports. But Southwest has accounted for the bulk of recent flight cancellations. A total of 168 inbound and outbound Southwest flights at San Diego International Airport were canceled by Wednesday afternoon, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware — a majority of the 174 overall flight cancellations to and from the airport. The website showed another 2,356 flights were canceled for Thursday. Thousands of passengers and their luggage remained in limbo Wednesday afternoon in Southern California and across the nation as Southwest continued to scrub the majority of its flights as it worked to recover from a failure in its scheduling systems combined with a devastating
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! State lowers incentives for rooftop solar CA utility agency pushes for more battery storage By Steve Puterski
REGION — The California Public Utilities Commission released new rules for the rooftop solar industry earlier this month, reducing the overall compensation to new customers by about 75% and changing how subsidies will be applied in the future. Net energy metering, or NEM, allows solar customers to earn credits for gen-
CALIFORNIA PUBLIC Utilities Commission aims to help low-income residents adopt rooftop solar. Stock photo
erating extra powerfor the grid. The program was commissioned at least 25 years ago to spur mass adoption of rooftop solar.
In 2013, state legislators required the agency to reform the NEM program due to massive cost shifts from rooftop solar owners to
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property owners unable to install solar panels. The agency’s Dec. 15 decision, known as NEM 3.0, aims to bolster grid reliability, control electricity costs and solar battery storage. The overhaul will significantly reduce net metering compensation rates for new California solar customers. The agency will also set aside $900 million in incentives — $630 million for low-income residents — to help adopt rooftop solar. Under the new guidelines, solar customers will save an average of $100 per TURN TO SOLAR ON 24
Encinitas council weighs smoking ban Council members next month will consider an ordinance covering most public spaces. 5
Oceanside Unifed teachers win 4% raise School board approves salary increase, one-time $2,500 payment. 3
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