[gunsequalfreedom]

Do you expect the water department to buy back gallon jugs full of water you got from collecting rain off your roof?

That analogy does not work but you made some interesting points. Do you see no benefit is homes being able to energize the grid at a rate that will pay homeowners at least something to do so?

[chrisser]

Do you see no benefit is homes being able to energize the grid at a rate that will pay homeowners at least something to do so?

It's not up to me to see a benefit. It's up to the power company. It's their grid, their personnel, their equipment.

If you can generate enough power that it becomes in their interest to pay you for it, I have no problem with that. If you can't, but you want to use government to force them to buy from you anyway - that I have a problem with.

Why would you invest in a system that generates excess power without knowing you could get a return on that investment? Or are you one of those people who doesn't want to invest in a proper storage system to make the intermittent power you generate service your usage patterns and instead want to use the grid as a storage medium and have the power company pay you for using their systems to do so?

And why doesn't the water analogy work?