Operating the Grid for Free

[Bret Cahill]

Someone's gotta pay:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-17/california-utilities-say-solar-raises-costs-for-non-users.html

 

[Jack Myers]

Bret Cahill <Bret_E_Cahill@yahoo.com> wrote:

Someone's gotta pay:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-17/california-utilities-say-solar-raises-costs-for-non-users.html

The story contains a couple of inaccuracies, namely:

1) The grid-tied systems pay a fixed network connection fee. This is in
addition to the net metering settlements discussed in the article.

2) Solar systems act to reduce overall peak loads, thereby
helping to defer the socialized cost of utilities building new power plants.

Oh, but it's the power companies who are doing the complaining. They
want to collect the profit on the facilities they aren't building,
owning, and operating. Now that must be a nice business to be in.

--
Jack Myers / Westminster, California, USA

Politics is entertainment. It's a sport. It's for the well-groomed
and well-heeled. The impeccably dressed. Party animals.
Politicians are interchangeable. -Bob Dylan

 

[Bret Cahill]

Someone's gotta pay:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-17/california-utilities-say-sol...

The story contains a couple of inaccuracies, namely:

1) The grid-tied systems pay a fixed network connection fee. This is in
addition to the net metering settlements discussed in the article.

I heard that SDGE had a flat monthly electric fee of about $166 and
maybe they paid for the installation.

2) Solar systems act to reduce overall peak loads, thereby
helping to defer the socialized cost of utilities building new power plants.

Oh, but it's the power companies who are doing the complaining. They
want to collect the profit on the facilities they aren't building,
owning, and operating. Now that must be a nice business to be in.

--
Jack Myers / Westminster, California, USA

Politics is entertainment. It's a sport. It's for the well-groomed
and well-heeled. The impeccably dressed. Party animals.
Politicians are interchangeable.  -Bob Dylan

Politics is for anyone who has read the classics and knows public
service is as glamorous as cleaning out public toilets.


Bret Cahill