HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
I see all these articles about how data centers need more power and how the state is working on it and its like. Hey how about you allow all residences to paid the market rate for energy they add to the grid and sitpulate if its ever changed they have to grandfather in all current users. That would boost rooftop solar so fast.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I live in SE MI. There are two things working against residential solar here.
First, in terms of peek sun hours it’s just not a great proposition. Yay cloud cover and short winter days
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More importantly, we no longer have net metering. If you generate surplus energy you can still sell it, but you sell it for below what you would have to pay it for.
HubertManne@piefed.social 13 hours ago
see that is what im talking about. residential should buy and sell by the same hourly rate if they want to. If you don’t want to sell you can opt out the hourly rate. again they would have to have the law say that if changed any current user gets to keep it grandfathered so anyone who buys panels won’t lose it.