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People hooking their solar systems to the grid, should be required to pay the cost of whatever improvements are required to make it work!!
Those of us who are satisfied with our electric service shouldn't have to subsidize those who aren't.
@Bullwinkle
Germany’s residential electricity cost is about $0.34/kWh my last Helco bill was $0.42/kwh.
It wasn't 50 cents it was exactly what I posted and that includes all of the options,tax and title.Out the door !!!
I don't understand people that claim P.V. is the future and then they want others to subsidize it !
From my point of view it is a scam like Enron and many others .A house of cards and the wind is coming !
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A large portion of the EU price - taxes to discourage consumption - has nothing to do with production cost
Gasoline at 8.00 a gallon - 4 dollars of that for taxes..... again to discourage folks from driving
Close to 20% VAT (value added tax) and now wanting to tax home grown electricity:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspecula...el-demand/
social control - like the bag ban....
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I guess I could post my bill and show all of the taxes !
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Slightly off topic, but under the general theme of HELCO.
If something does;t look right with your bill, by all means call HELCO.
I was on the mainland had of December and unplugged nearly all electronics (except fridge, and a few other major appliances.) So imagine my surprise when I got my electric bill and and it was HIGHER than the month of Nov. when I had been around all month.
I called HELCO and asked why my bill was so high given that I wasn't even home half the month.
Her response and I quote:
HELCO: "we were short handed and a meter reader never actually looked at your meter, so instead of not issuing you a bill we estimated what your bill would be based on the previous month."
Me: "so you guessed what my bill would be - even though my actual usage was in fact much lower."
HELCO: "we didn't guess, we estimated."
Me: ????????
After I told her my meter numbers, she told me she would revise my bill downward but would not tell m how much lower my bill would be. Still waiting to find out.
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Delta9r, with 25 yrs experience, you seem like a gold mine of information on solar. Please, tell us more!
I will be building soon and wanted to go solar but thought it would cost too much, be too difficult and too expensive.
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Hilo resident Wade Kalili chains self to HELCO door in protest of exorbitant electricity bills.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/23520...o-building
Mr. Kalili went so far as to disconnect his home from HELCO, then ran an extension cord from his son's house to his residence, and the resulting bills for his son's electric service were
lower than Mr. Kalili's normal monthly HELCO bill!
I say laters with HELCO, I'm happy not being subject to blackouts, voltage sags and spikes, and most of all, no monthly bill.
"Life is labor, and all that is good in life comes from that labor..."
"Life is labor, and all that is good in life comes from that labor..."
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quote:
HELCO: "we were short handed and a meter reader never actually looked at your meter...
Confused: HELCO can't afford enough staff to actually do the work for which they charge so much money?
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Shhhhhhhhh .... You will give them another "base" tax the
"meter reader didnt show up for work and we need to pay them and their replacement" tax
btw: more news in the trib today on another failed energy scam
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I'm off grid and loving it. For those citizens that pay tax on your income, you receive 65% of the system cost back in the form of tax credits. Its really amazing there isn't a mass exodus of people to solar. With this types of incentives, I think that's what the gov't was hoping for
