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ELECTRIC UTILITY PRICING for CUSTOMERS with SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATIONS Electric Utility Pricing for Customers with Solar Panel Installations
01/29/2022 | Brian Griffin

Posted on 01/29/2022 7:34:33 AM PST by Brian Griffin

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1 posted on 01/29/2022 7:34:33 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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There is also a social justice factor. If a bunch of solar panels could supply a village in Africa with ample electricity for the first time, then it would be improper for a Maryland millionaire to adorn his mansion with them to show his green credentials.

And there folks is the foundation of the Green New Deal . . . Wealth Redistribution!
2 posted on 01/29/2022 7:44:37 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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I’d say your social justice support would also work to say no one should have lobster when people in Africa may be starving.


3 posted on 01/29/2022 7:44:51 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Brian Griffin

BTTT


4 posted on 01/29/2022 7:47:14 AM PST by manna
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To: Brian Griffin

You do not understand economics nor business.


5 posted on 01/29/2022 7:47:19 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Brian Griffin

Solar panels - overly complex, unreliable, and not cost effective, as they rely on subsidies to make them seem “affordable”. To get a great deal for very little, means that somebody, somewhere, is paying WAY too much for very little return, or none at all.

TANSTAAFL (”There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”)


6 posted on 01/29/2022 7:48:46 AM PST by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: 100%FEDUP

“wealth redistribution”

Imagine the local real estate prices if a Caribbean island was populated with former Europeans instead of former Africans.

Jamaican houses might fetch an average of $2 million each.


7 posted on 01/29/2022 7:49:59 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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I don't want to sell my solar energy back to the utility!

I want my solar panels charging batteries to provide power to a SEPARATE CIRCUIT!

It will power my water well and pressure tank, and gas utilities, and a few critical items like freezer and fridge.

No TV, A/C, few lights, no washer/dryer.

Means a separate 4 gang outlet in the utility room, and similar in kitchen.

8 posted on 01/29/2022 7:51:01 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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Anyone considering solar, and also considering selling their house in a few years should check with local real estate agents on the headaches they face when selling solar properties. Because some of the installation schemes are based on contracts that need to be transferred, and in many cases cannot. Do you owe money on the panels etc.


9 posted on 01/29/2022 7:53:29 AM PST by Katya (lacking in the feelings department, )
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Everything is in the legal Tariff agreed upon by the local utility company, and the state’s PUC. They will not make tons of variance, as it’s completely unreasonable.
I have worked in electrical distribution for two utility companies, and they are as slow and cumbersome as any governmental institution. They are purposely undermanned, and the field is always overworked.(at least in the important jobs) This in conjunction with perpetual changing scientific components/technology makes an adaptable leviathan impossible.


10 posted on 01/29/2022 7:55:41 AM PST by EEGator
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To: CodeToad

“You do not understand economics nor business.”

There is much uncertainty in economics and business.

I look forward to your detailed expertise to enlighten me.


11 posted on 01/29/2022 7:56:00 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Katya

“Anyone considering solar...headaches”

The solar business tends to attract the unscrupulous.


12 posted on 01/29/2022 8:00:18 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Brian Griffin

What problem are you trying to solve by writing this article?


13 posted on 01/29/2022 8:00:24 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: alloysteel

Heinlein had it figured out for sure.


14 posted on 01/29/2022 8:00:27 AM PST by silent majority rising ( )
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To: EEGator

Do the utility companies actually use the electricity generated by home solar systems? Do they even collect it? Or is this a total public-private scam?


15 posted on 01/29/2022 8:01:17 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: G Larry

We live on a sail boat in a mooring field. We got 660w in Solar and 300ah of Lithium.

We don’t sell anything back to anyone, but, occasionally have to run our little Honda Generator for rainy days.


16 posted on 01/29/2022 8:02:33 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: CodeToad; Brian Griffin

“You do not understand economics nor business”


You have room to talk codetoad.

codetoad to setter:

“You (setter)claim a subsidy is innovation and operation funding. What a communist moron.”

Setter to codetoad: The billions US farmers get every year in subsidies is not funding their operation??

The billions in subsidies US companies receive every year from the gov’t what is it used for other than funding research, innovation and operational funding?


17 posted on 01/29/2022 8:04:02 AM PST by setter
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To: Brian Griffin

You seem to advocate an inconsistent and strange mixture of freedom and government control.

Do you believe that anthropogenic climate change is a threat?


18 posted on 01/29/2022 8:04:44 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: G Larry

Ok, do it. I have it both ways.

Freep mail me your zip code and I’ll help ya.


19 posted on 01/29/2022 8:07:54 AM PST by George from New England
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s fed back onto the distribution lines and used by local customers. It helps reduce the percentage of output towards max kVA on distribution substation transformers. I wouldn’t call it a scam, but the tax breaks are a skew in the market. Peak load will never be carried by it, or any solar. Nuclear, hydro, and gas turbine are the proper way to go, but we probably won’t...


20 posted on 01/29/2022 8:08:49 AM PST by EEGator
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