01-22-2015, 02:20 PM
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Originally posted by leilanidude
Paying the solar customer wholesale rate instead of nearly retail is sensible. The solar customer does not provide any of the infrastructure or maintenance for selling that solar power back into the grid system. I was really surprised when I found out they had been doing net-metering that way.
But the solar producer is paying for all the production infrastructure costs of producing the KWHs, and Helco gets the power without having to invest in its own infrastructure to produce those KWHs. So solar customers/producers do pay a share of infrastructure costs at the front end. I will go all off grid next time and skip being involved with Helco at all.