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Ill keep saying this, I dont understand net metering or flat rates for solar electricity. I live in the EU, our electricity prices have gone up 1000% and solar
by sandos 4y ago
Ill keep saying this, I dont understand net metering or flat rates for solar electricity. I live in the EU, our electricity prices have gone up 1000% and solar gets what you surely wonder? Well, they get whatever the price is at the _moment they sell_ their electricity!
Sure, this system does not really handle overloaded local grids and grid upgrades, but we pay through the nose for general grid access anyway. Paying the right price for every kWh just feels natural. It also automagically makes people take more or less correct decisions on batteries and when to produce.
- davnn 4y agoI just want to say that rooftop solar is a complete mess in my country in Central Europe. Since the Ukraine crisis, electricity prices went up like crazy and people actually got those prices for their solar energy. The problem is: nobody was actually paying the market rate prices as a consumer which means that you payed, for example, 8ct/KWh for using energy and got 80ct/KWh for delivering. Now the government is subsidizing those insane energy prices such that the consumers still pay an affordable rate and solar pays of in no time. Everyone who could afford it of course bought rooftop solar, but now a cap has been introduced such that you are only allowed to deliver a tiny amount of energy to the grid while your neighbor, who started before the cap was introduced, delivers 10x the amount.