Duke is not going to stop residential power generation, just discourage it. it would be a PR nightmare for them here.
The cost of power is quite low at $0.11 per kWh. They do have a base connection service cost that I pay even if I break even on the give and take, it is about 200kWh x $0.11 = $22 a month. Duke is completely sold on solar power, what's not to like? But only if it is under their thumb. Various businesses build, operate and maintain these solar plantations, not only Duke itself. Lot's of jobs there, and thus the legislature goes along with whatever Duke says. There is far less worry with a solar power plant than a coal or nuclear one, though they won't say it out loud. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 4:38 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190714/59c9f653/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
