RVUSA wrote:
Ah, it was the power companies. You may not be affected, yet, but you probably want to get up to speed on their efforts.
clicky
This situation is playing out now with most utilities across the US. The utilities state that they need to maintain the grid (including "last yards" connections), have increased costs for administrating solar, and are not reaping any payback from solar enabled customers. Instead of bearing these additional costs and lack of revenue, the utilities want it either charged to the solar user and/or by all of it's customers.
The opposing viewpoint is that the utility is gaining from decentralized solar production (new plant production isn't necessary), have little to maintain outside of the already established grid, and are the same folks that incentivised solar installation through the last ten years, hoping to relieve plant expansion and to trade away "green production" against nuclear storage issues or others.
IMO, the utilities are up against the wall. Solar isn't going away and, if they put too much of a cost onto the backs of solar users, there is not much they can do from an owner going "off grid". It seems like the usual progression of a monopoly being affected from advances in technology.
