Only during daylight hours.
Should I have to pay for your electrical grid if I never hook up to it?
Government bureaucrats & commies think any reason is good enough to extort money form those who have it, but is it ethical?
They should only have to pay an amount equal to what the utility wastes on non infrastructure related expenses. That would be about 90%.
They should not have to pay a “grid maintenance fee” if they are not connected to the grid (ie - they generate their own power 24/7/365); however, if they are connected to the grid and dark matter (night) invades and they have to draw power from the grid then they should be liable for the fee.
Yes. People with no children have to pay school taxes.
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
“2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”
Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."
About "70 million" people are receiving good incomes but are also steeped in debt and can't borrow more for big ticket items (see groups above).
More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005481/posts
America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print
The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/
Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts
The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts
Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html
Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts
Only allowing for the federal subsidies... In reality, it's not competitive at all.
If a residence is completely disconnected from the grid, thereby never being able to use utility generated electricity, then they should pay nothing.
On the other hand, if a residence is connected to the grid and drawing power from the grid at any time or simply able to do so, then that residence should be paying for the cost of any electricity used plus a charge for the infrastructure. It would seem that utilities need to break out their charges to include a component for infrastructure support. Each home in a community would pay the same fixed infrastructure fee. If that were the case, then the residence drawing power from the grid during certain hours would be paying a monthly infrastructure support charge just like his neighbors plus the cost of generating any electricity used during that month. It does not seem fair that a residence using solar generated power should be able to rely on the electric utility for backup without paying a fee for that backup service. A home having no connection to the grid does not have the ability to tap utility supplied electricity. Hence no fee for them.
Of course they should pay.
The solar panels just demonstrated that they still have money left.
Get off of the grid.
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
http://donkey32.proboards.com/
(more on rocket stove mass heaters)
$1000 Solar Water Heater —Overview
http://www.builditsolar.com/Experimental/PEXColDHW/Overview.htm
(good learning tool for the system behind the next link)
$2K Solar Space + Water Heating — One Simple DIY System
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SpaceHeating/DHWplusSpace/Main.htm
As for PV solar power plants, there are sites all over the Net for learning how they work, how to install them and the best components to install. Get a copy of the National Electrical Code. Study it. Study electrical safety. It’s well worth it. A powerful, self-installed system can use as little as about $60 per month, if you get rid of some of the more outrageously hungry appliances and use better equipment for comforts—especially home-built equipment.
end heavy subsidies and tax breaks on solar
If they have absolutely no connection whatsoever to the transmission system then no, otherwise yes.
OMG! One Leftist Utopia Idea just MIGHT be coming to fruition! Solar Power for all! (As IF they invented it, LOL!)
Oh, wait...it’s probably DESTROYING the planet in some manner, like frying some ‘protected’ fly that flies over our solar panels on the roof - so in the next decade we’ll need to BAN solar!
Effing Eco-Weenie Morons.
HOWEVER - I’m not giving up my wind-powered water-pumping windmill on my farm. Eff you! Eff you all! I’ve got mine, so screw the rest of ya, LOL!
*SNORT*
‘New’ sources of energy. Bwa-Haaaaa-Haaaaaa!
*Shakes Head, Walks Away*
Huh, we are paying for other people’s medical...duh, yeah.
If I were taking electricity from the grid part of the time and putting it back at other times it would be reasonable to pay for the fixed fee and the delivery fee both ways because I would be using the equipment no matter which way the electricity is flowing.
I have no car*. Should part of my taxes go towards street repair, infrastructure maintenance and new road construction?
* made up for the example. I do have a vehicle.
What’s the minimum rate for maintaining an electrical connection, $25.00 a month? How many vacation homes and vacant buildings are there, with power shut off at the panel but connected to the grid? They don’t force these customers to pay anything but the basic connection fee. Any more than that for customers with solar should not be legal, they’d be charged for services not rendered.
Hell yes!!!
Eliminate all subsidies and kill stupid solar!!!
I know what our general tendencies are... You can buy a car that gets 10MPG or one that gets 50MPG. You simply pay for what you use, nothing more, nothing less. However, what blows up this particular argument is that these utility companies do not operate on the open market, they are regulated utilities. Free market principles don’t completely apply because government has messed with the natural order of things. Normally I would say it’s none of anyones damned business where the electricity goes or how much goes into my home after the meter. Reducing the amount I consume by either shutting everything off, or by supplementing with solar power is not their business. Now, if by some magical feat the meter is always pushing back more than I consume, then yes, I should be paying for the right to connect and sell back to them. for some reason, I just don’t see that happening though.