I’d say your social justice support would also work to say no one should have lobster when people in Africa may be starving.
BTTT
You do not understand economics nor business.
Solar panels - overly complex, unreliable, and not cost effective, as they rely on subsidies to make them seem “affordable”. To get a great deal for very little, means that somebody, somewhere, is paying WAY too much for very little return, or none at all.
TANSTAAFL (”There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”)
I want my solar panels charging batteries to provide power to a SEPARATE CIRCUIT!
It will power my water well and pressure tank, and gas utilities, and a few critical items like freezer and fridge.
No TV, A/C, few lights, no washer/dryer.
Means a separate 4 gang outlet in the utility room, and similar in kitchen.
Anyone considering solar, and also considering selling their house in a few years should check with local real estate agents on the headaches they face when selling solar properties. Because some of the installation schemes are based on contracts that need to be transferred, and in many cases cannot. Do you owe money on the panels etc.
Everything is in the legal Tariff agreed upon by the local utility company, and the state’s PUC. They will not make tons of variance, as it’s completely unreasonable.
I have worked in electrical distribution for two utility companies, and they are as slow and cumbersome as any governmental institution. They are purposely undermanned, and the field is always overworked.(at least in the important jobs) This in conjunction with perpetual changing scientific components/technology makes an adaptable leviathan impossible.
What problem are you trying to solve by writing this article?
“the capital cost of the related non-solar backup capacity”
What does that mean?
My non-solar electric supply comes from Progress Energy (coal/nat gas/nuclear) as it has for years. There’s no “backup” here.
Unless I got a generator.
What ever Socialist wrote this nonsense is an idiot.
The government should get out of the energy business. The best way to insure that EVERYONE has competitive energy is competition.
At times of high demand, A/C demand especially in the summer months utilities will pay up to $5000 per MW for electricity over and above what they can make. If a person had 15 or 20 KW on their roof in PV’s they could make a little money selling back to the grid, but if the grid doesn’t want it the government shouldn’t interfere with it. If people want solar let them pay for it. If people believe in Global warming then let them pay for their solar and not worry about it.
I don’t believe in Global warming and don’t care if the grid buys my excess electricity or not. I have solar so when the power is out mine is not. (I have substantial battery backup) Right now in my Kentucky home I don’t have to use my battery backup unless we have a storm that takes the power out. The Electricity company DOES take my excess electricity and allows me to take it back whenever I want. So, in the daytime I give to them (when they need it the most) and at night time I take it from them when they have the most to spare. If the government would stop protecting monopolies so much and allow competition we would see wonders.
To think that I should have to pay more if I use less is lunacy. Currently I have to pay a minimum fee to be connected to the grid each month, you do too you just don’t know it because you use more than some minimum. This is to cover the cost of the wiring to my home and billing. So, whether or not I use any electricity I still have to pay them about $20. I do it, I could always just disconnect and save $240 a year but I like being tied to the grid, the grid likes getting my money.
People need to stop thinking of government solutions to everything, we just don’t need most of it.
Another analysis of proposed CA regulations:
http://www.californiafocus.net/2021/12/will-state-regulators-kill-rooftop-solar.html
This points out that Power Utilities are looking out for themsleves, at the expense of Solar homeowners.
I open my windows when it’s warm and keep them closed when it’s cold....
That’s all I care about solar anything.
Here in California we are currently being inundated with TV advertising telling us how unfair it is for the poor, who cannot afford to buy solar, to have to pay higher electricity rates to subsidize the rich who can. But they fail to grasp the fact that first, the rich were encouraged by the state to do so with the enticement of guaranteed rate reduction and tax incentives. Secondly, the state now requires all new housing to have solar. Third, solar generation reduces the demand for additional generating sources like hydro and nuclear thereby reducing overall costs for everyone, including the poor. And finally, solar reduces California’s need to buy expensive emergency power from neighboring states during high demand periods, again reducing electrical costs for all. To change the rules now would amount to a government condoned “bait and switch” for solar owners to placate those who cry “poverty” at every cost in life and continually seek government subsistence.
As long as “Bob” has his neighbors paying for his solar installation and subsidizes the cost of electricity he is ok with it.
BOOKbump