I don’t get it either. Electricity providers have a monopoly based on location. It’s not like I get to choose whose wires I want to hook up to, there’s one choice. So why would the power company choose to give anyone a deal? I get that during the planning stage they could be courting various locations but still I don’t really get it.
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Nikelui@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWouldn’t want to upset corporate overlords.
gallowshumor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Partly because doing so risks that they might decide to invest in their own production instead, and therefore not buy any electricity from you at all which would result in loss of demand and a reduction in overall electricity cost. Like how rising a bus ticket fare by 10% means you will lose some customers because they decide to walk instead, so your profit increase will be lower than that 10%. Raise it too much, and almost everyone walks, and you sell no tickets.
And it’s a lot harder to build your solar farm if you are a single person living in an apartment building.
MalMen@masto.pt 3 weeks ago
@JohnEdwa @Nikelui that make sense...