[The Working Man]

I did a search to see if the article had been posted before.

Many of us over the years have talked about the unintended consequences of any Government Mandated or encouraged action. And once again we have been proven right. Come up with a way of saving money, reducing consumption and you will have to pay more later on to make up for what you were conserving on.

[MrB]

Doesn’t this only affect those who sell back to the grid?

What if you just forego the pennies that you would get for overproduction?

[The Working Man]

Signed by the Governor into law April 22, 2014

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/oklahoma-solar-surcharge-bill-becomes-law-17335

[RIghtwardHo]

Right or Left ... our governments are neither of the People nor by the People. Your land is not yours. Your life is not yours. Our governments are wholly owned subsidiaries of ,,, well, various entities. Left, Right ... throw them out until we get real Patriots in there. It is WAY past time to stop falling for the rhetoric. We have become a Nation of bumper-sticker readers.

[sagar]

“Senate Bill 1456 passed 83-5 after no debate.... The bill was supported by the state’s major electric utilities,”

The same okies will be against gubmint intrusion, I am sure.

[tsomer]

From the article:
Representatives of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and Public Service Co. of Oklahoma said the surcharge is needed to recover some of the infrastructure costs to send excess electricity safely from distributed generation back to the grid. The representatives said utilities need the new surcharge to prevent customers who can’t afford the installation costs of distributed generation from subsidizing customers who have the systems installed.

It only concerns customers who wish to sell energy back to the utility, and covers the costs here-to-for assumed by the utility (and customers) to provide the safeguards and connections to do this. It's fairly complicated, selling DC current to an AC grid.

[RegulatorCountry]

If it’s a grid-connected solar panel system, spinning your meter backwards during the day but using grid power at night, otherwise known as “net metering,” is there a surcharge, or is this specifically directed at solar generation selling excess electricity generated into the grid?

I’ve had some interest in solar for years, but several factors have kept me from doing anything. First and foremost was cost but that’s coming down. Second would be reliability which is still an issue, and solar panel manufacturers have tended to come and go, making any warranty a sort of dicey proposition.

Ideally I’d want to be able to use it as backup, but regulations in this state at least preclude any sort of battery storage in a grid-tied system, it would have to be off grid for that. So, I’ve been looking at maybe a Morton building with two bays and a finished office area that would be solar, plus a well pump. That would create livable space in any extended power outage.

There are solar arrays with batteries build on trailers, intended to be used for backup like a generator, hooked up to a transfer panel, but the cost would be wasted most of the time, I’d want as much return as possible since it’s still pretty expensive.

[publius911]

Oklahoma House passes solar surcharge bill

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

How DARE you use the State Gummint's sunshine!!