While our feckless leaders shoot spitballs through straws at each other and get little done, I daydream back about 30 years with my first solar/battery/generator installation that was actually grid tied for push back. Granted there were virtually no regulations as far as safety then. The meters were simple with their spinning wheels either going one way or the other.
Meaning you sold power back at the price you paid.
Bit by bit the advantages of contributing to grid security has been eroded by a regulatory environment that buckles every thought of balancing the concerns of the macro-visionaries.
Wouldn’t a more stable power grid be better served by the community that depends on its survival?
The technology is available now to connect and manage these resources together at the provider level. A home based incentive of more than 30% of retail would be a good start.
I produce enough to power three average homes with enough storage for three days. Grid tie pushback is not worth it for me. The pay out vs the cost of the “privileged” plus the paltry amount they pay per kw is just not worth it. For now, I just use the grid if I need to charge my batteries, which hasn’t happened yet. Again, some decentralization is in order. Top down economics are destabilizing our lives.
Great article. Beware the climate science genius’s & their brilliant logic (or lack of). Tell them to go live off the grid in their solar & wind powered houses & drive their electric cars. Which, by the way, when the grid goes down-ain’t nobody charging any cars. We had rolling blackouts in Alabama during the Christmas holidays with subzero windchills. Super scary. Yes, we all need to be better stewards of natural resources, but we’re just not there yet with alternative energy sources. We need more common sense & less agenda-pushing.
Maybe our senators and congressman and women should be fighting this back instead of fighting in Ukraine running for president or telling the entire world about there pre marital see lives!!
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While our feckless leaders shoot spitballs through straws at each other and get little done, I daydream back about 30 years with my first solar/battery/generator installation that was actually grid tied for push back. Granted there were virtually no regulations as far as safety then. The meters were simple with their spinning wheels either going one way or the other.
Meaning you sold power back at the price you paid.
Bit by bit the advantages of contributing to grid security has been eroded by a regulatory environment that buckles every thought of balancing the concerns of the macro-visionaries.
Wouldn’t a more stable power grid be better served by the community that depends on its survival?
The technology is available now to connect and manage these resources together at the provider level. A home based incentive of more than 30% of retail would be a good start.
I produce enough to power three average homes with enough storage for three days. Grid tie pushback is not worth it for me. The pay out vs the cost of the “privileged” plus the paltry amount they pay per kw is just not worth it. For now, I just use the grid if I need to charge my batteries, which hasn’t happened yet. Again, some decentralization is in order. Top down economics are destabilizing our lives.
Great article. Beware the climate science genius’s & their brilliant logic (or lack of). Tell them to go live off the grid in their solar & wind powered houses & drive their electric cars. Which, by the way, when the grid goes down-ain’t nobody charging any cars. We had rolling blackouts in Alabama during the Christmas holidays with subzero windchills. Super scary. Yes, we all need to be better stewards of natural resources, but we’re just not there yet with alternative energy sources. We need more common sense & less agenda-pushing.
Maybe our senators and congressman and women should be fighting this back instead of fighting in Ukraine running for president or telling the entire world about there pre marital see lives!!