3 thoughts on “Missouri Repubs Trying to Impose New Fees on Solar Panels”
This isn't as unreasonable as it sounds. California has "net metering," too. It means the electric company buys the solar power you generate but don't use, typically during the middle of the day when you're at work in a nice air conditioned building. Since they're the ones who bear the cost of building and maintaining the grid that makes this possible, and also provide you with power at night, it's reasonable that solar users should pay something for the privilege of being attached.
But since most electric companies are run by crazed monopolist greedheads, the rates will probably be exorbitant enough to dampen everyone's enthusiasm for solar.
I plan to take whatever proceeds from the eventual sale of the desert compound and invest it in a detached garage here in CA. It will be an expansion of an existing shop building. It's on a separate meter from the house, which will make it more difficult to place a solar installation on the garage and backfeed it to the house, but that's still my intent. I don't mind paying to tie into the grid, though my gut tells me it would be right and good to stick it to the DWP.
Doesn't everybody have that right now? As soon as Elon gets his "Gigafactory" working three shifts, big Tesla batteries should be as cheap as, uh, a few tons of coal.
This isn't as unreasonable as it sounds. California has "net metering," too. It means the electric company buys the solar power you generate but don't use, typically during the middle of the day when you're at work in a nice air conditioned building. Since they're the ones who bear the cost of building and maintaining the grid that makes this possible, and also provide you with power at night, it's reasonable that solar users should pay something for the privilege of being attached.
But since most electric companies are run by crazed monopolist greedheads, the rates will probably be exorbitant enough to dampen everyone's enthusiasm for solar.
I plan to take whatever proceeds from the eventual sale of the desert compound and invest it in a detached garage here in CA. It will be an expansion of an existing shop building. It's on a separate meter from the house, which will make it more difficult to place a solar installation on the garage and backfeed it to the house, but that's still my intent. I don't mind paying to tie into the grid, though my gut tells me it would be right and good to stick it to the DWP.
Doesn't everybody have that right now? As soon as Elon gets his "Gigafactory" working three shifts, big Tesla batteries should be as cheap as, uh, a few tons of coal.