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To: Tell It Right

Just wait until you get Californiacated by FedGov and have to feed your electricity into the grid and pay for whatever you use.


24 posted on 06/14/2022 5:09:18 PM PDT by oldvirginian (The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. The FBI is the second largest.)
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To: oldvirginian
"Just wait until you get Californiacated by FedGov and have to feed your electricity into the grid and pay for whatever you use."

Alabama doesn't do net metering. Because of that, virtually all of us solar users in Alabama buy inverters with a "no report" / "zero output" feature that basically lets us tell our inverters not to put power onto the grid. The solar users in other states got suckered into buying inverters that always put power onto the grid (cheaper than inverters with other options) because those states had net metering --- until they didn't. So in those states you paid no extra monthly fee just to participate in their solar buyback program, and when they bought solar from you it was close to the same cents/kWh rate that you pay the utility when you buy power from them. Who wouldn't sign up for that? That's how they got suckered in before Commiefornia changed the rules recently. The solution is to replace their old inverter(s) with a more expensive one that allows them to put nothing onto the grid. That makes them cease to be a "power generating" customer with all the regulations and fees that go with it.

As far as my power utility is concerned, I'm not a solar user. I'm just a customer who buys little power from them ... for whatever reason.

If my power utility makes me pay that large monthly "solar fee" even though I'm not technically a "power generating" customer, I'll go off-grid, buy a 10kW continuous power generator for about $1,500, buy a 100lb propane tank (but fill it about 70% to keep it from "freezing") and, according to my math, run my generator on average 1.5 hours per month for when my solar and batteries don't have power. That sure beats having to pay the $130 solar fee (it's based on the throughput of your inverter(s)) plus the $16 monthly stay-connected fee all of us in Alabama pay each month even before they add the charges per kWh.

32 posted on 06/14/2022 5:23:03 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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