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Won’t be any money if there isn’t any power.
But that won't happen this quarter. So why pay for it from this quarter's budget when we can deferr it until after I my promotion. Got to keep my number good.
What will happen is that utilities will take about a year to file an IRP with a rate increase, have it under consideration for a year, and then when it’s invariably passed, they will subcontract the work to a corporation the utility owns (at a big markup), complete about 40% of the work, report a massive profit to their shareholders while reporting to your utility commission that they need more rate hikes, citing extenuating circumstances, the economy, the usual “please give us socialism” corporate nonsense.