Power company: We want more money from people
RepubliQan committee: Done
People: ??!
(In episode 2, people vote in the republiQans again)
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Maybe... but Arizona has slowly been turning blue. It's a purple state at this point. Trump and Biden are definitely going to have a big battle over it.
A rate charge increase targeting solar customers is fucking horseshit.
Should they pay for infrastructure? Absolutely, but the same flat rate that all customers pay, that are tied in.
That the rate scale was passed without any real review by the elected officials is fucking egregious. Can't even do their fucking jobs.
When the citizen is hosting the infrastructure then it seems like the citizen should be charging Arizona.
Don't worry, we do get to sell our excess energy back to the grid. I can earn a very generous fixed 2.8 cents per kWh that I generate, but have the privilege of paying no less than 7 cents, but up to 25c at peak, per kWh.
Oh and somehow my peak hours are different than they were before I had solar. Because the grid struggles to produce power at different times for different people.
It's super frustrating.
Time to add some whole-home batteries and maybe a few more panels to their systems and cut off from the grid completely. Get an EV with V2L capabilities and you can boost the system from time to time if you need to.
I've always wondered about having a big system that's just not part of the the house wiring and never telling the electric company you're using solar.
A lot of places require a house to have electric service. Not just electricity available on site, but service from the utility. Otherwise it's not livable.
So bring electric into a circuit panel that powers nothing but a house plug and pay a tiny amt for the electricity used. Get your solar and batteries connected to a separate panel that powers everything else.
This exactly. And if you're close to running out of batteries, you have mains you can draw from.