07-01-2015, 01:09 AM
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It's really quite a good deal: the customers are in charge of all the solar infrastructure investment and suffer any losses due to lightning, hurricanes, etc, and the corporation reaps the benefit of all the clean free energy they get in return for the customers being charged to attach to the grid.
Just playing devil's advocate here for discussion sake, if this is such a concern for you, why don't you disconnect from the grid and just use your solar? There are two perspectives on this issue. From the power companies point of view, they are struggling to maintain the stability of a power grid that is ever changing as new customers connect new green sources of electricity - something the grid was never designed to handle. From the perspective of the solar producing customer, there is this antiquated money grubbing corporation getting in the way of me doing my fine work to better the planet.
At the end of the day, it seems to me that by connecting to the grid you are entering into a contract that serves each side by an agreed to set of terms. Ultimately, it's up to you what you choose to do. [
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