- For full disclosure: I'm an electric engineer in employ by an energy utility
At this point I scrolled back up to see if I'd posted this (I hadn't).
- in charge of system protection
In charge of programming blue boxes? I'm on the system study side and have worn planning an operations engineering hats.
The bit that frustrates me is this doesn't impact large scale solar, something that has always been more cost effective than rooftop solar. It isn't an attack on solar, it's an attack on a financial scheme that wasn't sustainable in the long term.
Assuming they're the blue boxes I'm thinking of, yeah, planning. Much respect for the Sys Ops and field crews. Union or otherwise, they go through some shit and don't get much in the way of thanks for it.
Yeah, the issue's never been large scale systems. Between the Boxler case and general system guidelines on how we deal with industrial feeds, anything over a certain MVA automatically leaves the purview of these kinds of rate fights.