Incidentally, Microsoft and Nintendo's American corporate headquarters are in Washington and Sony's is in California. Although this is more the usual mix of politicians wanting to look good and corporations (more Google and Apple) wanting to add a huge hurdle to potential rivals who might out-innovate them.
Because they're too fucking lazy to build more power plants and update the grid so apparently you have to suffer. Incidentally, this is the sort of thing where you either vote at the ballot box or vote with your feet, and if you're doing the former, that means you show up to townhalls and engage in the political process and start grilling candidates where they stand on the issue.
That's a funny thought. They like to screech about how Gamergate created the alt-right and got Donald Trump elected, but what if a single-issue PAC started specifically to repeal laws like this and support alternate solutions (i.e. build more fucking power plants and you won't have this energy efficiency problem)? Call it PAC-Man or something, because this is gamers and even boomer politicians know what Pac-Man is. PAC-Man ends up lobbying politicians, dishing out millions in campaign donations, and delivering tens of thousands of votes to less-stupid politicians solely because they targeted gamers. Gamers. A group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying they did.