I didn’t need to read the article to know this was going to be about Alabama Power. They are massively influential in this state and essentially own the state regulator, the Public Service Commission. We have high rates and our support for residential solar is worse than nonexistent. It’s just pure corruption.
I’ve found that usually is the case especially with “articles” like this on TV News channel sites, but I can’t find where any papers have picked up the story. They may still be following up on it, but I would expect if the Houston Chronicle winds up picking the story up they will have more details.
Yeah, considering the compounding problems of transportation and food deserts in the US I think this could be helpful for a lot of people, but on the other hand I’m not wild about a company like Uber extracting profit from public assistance. Feels a little exploitative.