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The CPUC NEM 3.0 will intentionally motivate home owners to use home Battery Energy Storage Systems for time shifting instead of using the grid, by paying only 8 cents/kWh to upload energy to the grid, versus  30 cents for downloading it. They are thus setting up homeowners to face a new fire threat, due to the significant hazard of Lithium ion battery storage systems. According to recent lessons learned on BESS fire prevention and mitigation published by the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) in June 2021, over 30 large-scale BESS globally experienced failures that resulted in destructive fires over the past four years (Long, 2021). These events are also tracked in the publicly accessible BESS Failure Event Database (EPRI, 2022). Most events had in common that the lithium ion batteries installed in the BESS where somehow driven to vent battery gas and transition to thermal runaway, which is a process that releases large amounts of energy. Thermal runaway is strong...

Robert Coates Obituary (1937 - 2024) - La Jolla, CA - La Jolla Light legacy.com Robert C. Coates Twitter January 31, 1937 - January 3, 2024  La Jolla  Raised in Pacific Beach by his parents H Crawford Coates and Genevieve (Teachout) Coates at a time when most of the streets were unpaved and Mt. Soledad was sagebrush and deer. He devoted his life to innumerable areas of service in the community of San Diego including the environment, climate change, justice, scouting, and homelessness and served President or Chairman of more than 16 organizations. As a lad, Bob was a devoted "baseball guy" and played 3rd base for the City Champions PB Reds, was MVP his senior year at La Jolla High School in 1954 and played at SDSU. He was also a regular attendee of the annual La Jolla High School Alumni baseball game. He served in the Naval Reserve and after an unsuccessful bid for a state assembly seat in 1964 Bob attende...