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Always good to hear from another solar customer who ‘gets it.’

[Tell It Right]

If anyone else is reading this thread, I strongly suggest doing your homework before going solar. There are plenty of details related to your climate, where you'd put the solar, and your power consumption habits that determine if solar is worth it. You can get inverters that allow you to keep power to your home when the grid is down (otherwise you'd have to set your inverter to automatically shut down power to your house when the grid is down to protect linemen). Again, the #1 goal is for you to be in charge, not the state.

And the way the utility can control you is with the grid-sell. So buy equipment that has the ability to turn off grid-sell if the regulations change to not being in your favor. If you don't put power onto the grid, it's not the utility's business whether or not you have solar to reduce how much you pull from the grid. Or another way to say it, it's not in the utilities sight how much power you use if a lot of the power you use is homemade power (not pulled from the grid).