Or pay the Home owner for the extra power fed back to the network.
They’d still be missing out on the taxes. Sure the price of power would go down but then how long will it take to amortize the solar panel price of around .70 per watt. you’re looking at around $1,000 for 1.5K which will run a toaster or hairdryer. There are a lot of panels in the outback here but they’re up in the thousands of watts, very spendy but considering some stations are a long way from a power grid. They also use wind power.
Nope. That power is unreliable, off peak and mostly worthless. Out in the desert it can be used for A/C during peak solar. But here in the east that power is probably worth 2-3 cents a kWh because it is not needed. But as politics would have it, I have to pay people about 12 cents for each 2 cents of power. The worst thing about it is I am mostly not paying homeowners, but scam corporations like Solar City.