> This doesn't seem like an absurd amount of money to have power when your system inevitably goes down for a time. It's an incredibly low amount of money to ha

> This doesn't seem like an absurd amount of money to have power when your system inevitably goes down for a time. It's an incredibly low amount of money to have 24x7x365 reliable power. The alternative (off-grid systems) cost tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dollars. $10/m is nothing, and is arguably too low. The solution should be to charge all customers a higher fixed monthly charge for grid access and distribution, and then charge less for the power consumed.