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Yes if you consider utilities as a business that sells power for more than it pays, net metering is a subsidy. But if you think a utility has a special respons
by encoderer 11y ago
Yes if you consider utilities as a business that sells power for more than it pays, net metering is a subsidy.
But if you think a utility has a special responsibility to the public, and I for one do, it's hard to defend charging me more for a kW coming into my home one moment than I get for one going out the next.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoUtilities aren't comfortable with the fact that generators will go out of business, and only transmission will remain as a non-profit ISO-type entity (coordinating energy distribution and storage).