Robert,
You're probably right on the peak power rates. But I think the power
companies have a legitimate concern. That doesn't justify stonewalling.
The issue I see is what happens when solar generation is insufficient.
If residents are installing solar panels but no backup supply, then they
are relying on the grid to generate power when they cannot. That means
the utilities have to build full capacity power generation regardless if
it gets used regularly or hardly at all.
Currently, they use much of their capacity all the time and, thus, can
recoup their investment over a large degree of usage. Alternatively, if
they have to build the same capacity and recoup their investment just
during occasional peak usage, I suspect their peak rates will need to be
a lot higher than they currently are.
That said, such an arrangement, with mitigation, might not be so bad. It
would encourage people to install backup storage and reduce the
utility's need to build out.
Peri
------ Original Message ------
From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
Sent: 13-Aug-16 9:26:59 AM
Subject: [EVDL] Solar haves and have nots
The argument that solar people (many with EV's) are getting an unfair
good
deal at the expense of other rate payers is hogwash, yet the fossil
fuel
industry lobbyists and big money are promoting it to fight solar.
I just had an emiphany...
We all know that home solar is actually a big win to the utilities
since
they are getting our solar power at the standard 10 cent rate when in
fat,
they are paying 5 to ten times that during the daily peak to meet peak
demand. And the proof is in every electric bill in Maryland. All
customers have smart meters, and the utility says THEY WILL PAY
EVERYONE
$1.50 PER KWH for every KWH THAT THEY DO NOT USE ON THESE PEAK SOLAR
DAYS.
This proves they are paying more than $1.50 per kWh on those days...
So do not be fed the BS from the utilities and fossil fuel industry
that
solar is "costing them money" when in fact they are skimming off the
profits and taking them straight to the bank.
But solar customers understand that this net profit to the utilities
for
their power is what they give up in order to have the grid as their
storage
system. So it is a win-win for both (and a lose-lose for the fossil
fuel
industry truing to burn every last drop.
HERE IS MY EPIPHANY:
In the past, it was the Fossil fuel people and their dirty PEAKING
plants
that were getting paid ten to twenty times the normal rate during PEAK
solar days, and yet the utilty now is getting the same peak power from
solar still at the net rate of ten cents. No wonder they feel
threatened.
Notice it is not the other rate payers losing money it is the dirty
fossil
fuel peak generator suppliers that see the ten-to-1 loss in their dirty
peakers. And that is exactly as it should be. We need them and their
dirty power off the grid. The sooner the better.
Sure we need peaking plants, But we do not need to cry over them when
solar can provide power to the grid at the same time for under 10% of
their
dirty costs. So it is not the other rate payers that are complaining,
it
is the dirty fossil fuel peaking plans using the good name of "other
rate
payers" to divide and conquer us.
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
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