Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoYou could when solar fist started becoming available. Energy companies quickly realized that if everyone did that, they’d have way too much power during the day, and none at night.
Our local co-op power generator barely makes it useful to have solar unless you also have battery storage.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 days ago
In my naive view I don’t see why they wouldn’t just give less and less money until they’re effectively giving you none or even charging you for putting it back into the grid. It would then incenticize people to get battery banks and put it in during the night.
But again, naive view. Maybe I’m missing something obvious.