On 13 Jul 2019 at 12:39, Mr. Sharkey via EV wrote: > Virtually ~all~ utility companies require a customer who plans to > produce power and introduce it to their grid to have complied with > stringent regulations ... you will almost certainly be *charged* for > any excess power that you push back into the grid, rather than > credited for it
Thanks for making that point. I'm surprised at how the PV world continues to treat grid intertie as some kind of holy grail, even as the power companies take every opportunity to make it more difficult and expensive. At least in most parts of the US, and even in some places in Europe, the grid is NOT a gigantic free battery. You PAY to use it. And what you pay is not likely to decrease; quite to the contrary. We're going back to the way intertie started off decades ago. The utilities imposed impossible technical and insurance requirements on net metering, which led PV hobbyists to start the Guerrilla Solar movement -- essentially doing grid intertie on the sly. Then various states and localities, and some European nations, passed laws supporting net metering. That's when intertie started to take off. But more recently, the utilites have been buying politicians and getting the net metering laws reversed. Guess what -- Guerrilla Solar is back. Not that I'd ever do such a thing, mind you. I don't think the power companies are going to stop pushing back until they've effectively killed grid intertie. If I were building a PV system in the US today, I'd probably make it 100% off grid. I'd feed a subpanel with it, and as I was able to expand the system over a period of years, I'd gradually transfer loads from utility power to home power. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
